While we wait for life, life passes

As was his language so was his life.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

To make a commencement requires a mental effort.

An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.