It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.
Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.