The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

Hunger is the best sauce.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

He is rich who wishes no more than he has.