If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
We pardon familiar vices.
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.