All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.

What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

Luck never made a man wise.