That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.