Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity

A twenty-minute eulogy, unless composed by a) William Shakespeare, b) Winston Churchill, or c) Mark Twain, is sixteen minutes too long. Technical note: It is better to tell a eulogist to speak for four minutes not five minutes. “Five minutes” to the modern ear sounds like “around five minutes,” whereas “four minutes” means “four minutes.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul

The likelihood that I am going to come up with anything different is remote,