Not even old age knows how to love death.

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

False words do not bring forth fruit.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.