Because a man speaks, he thinks he is able to speak about language.
One need only grow old to become gentler in one's judgments. I see no fault committed which I could not have committed myself.
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.
Why should those who are happy expect one who is miserable to die before them in a graceful attitude, like the gladiator before the Roman mob?
Some one asked Timon about the education of his children. 'Let them,' he said, 'be instructed in that which they will never understand.'