Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.
But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.