Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

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.

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.