Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.