The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?