Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

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.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.