Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.