It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.

Great Time makes all things dim.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

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

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.