“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.”
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.