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.

While we wait for life, life passes

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.

The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.