Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.

It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.

Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.

The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

To give requires good sense.