If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.
Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.
A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.