No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
Birth is nothing where virtue is not
It is a long road from conception to completion.