E verything which happens is as familiar and well known as the rose in spring and the fruit in summer; for such is disease, and death, and calumny, and treachery, and whatever else delights fools or vexes them.
Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it …
In the series of things those which follow are always aptly fitted to those which have gone before; for this series is n…