Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.