Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.