There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.