If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

The Senate decreed that vows should be undertaken every fifth year by the consuls and priests for my health.