A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.

Unsung, the noblest deed will die.

Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.