As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
Life without literary studies is death.
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.