Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.
If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.