To the stars through difficulties.
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"
The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.
Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.
Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.