Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.

I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.