For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.
Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.