Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.
An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
The belly has no ears.
Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.
For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.
What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.