Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

Man is a social animal.