How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

A great man is always willing to be little.