Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and …

Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraord…

Monumenta fatiscunt: mors etiam saxis nominibusque venit.

There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

Tempus edax rerum