Lucien Valerius/Introduction

"Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere." "No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year." <style="font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Chiller">        —– Marcus Tulius Cicero

"ruinis inminentibus musculi praemigrant..." "When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it."         —– Pliny the Elder