A man is not completely born until he is dead.
Security without liberty is called prison.
The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.