Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.