Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.
Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.
It is the act of a coward to wish for death.
A gift in time of need is most acceptable.
It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.
I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.