Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

A thousand approaches lie open to death.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.