Memories and Recollections

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which 89 annihilates the memory, together with life.

Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men.

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.