From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
Until death it is all life.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.