Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.
I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.
Number, the most excellent of all inventions.
Call no man happy till he is dead.
Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.