Fear drives the wretched to prayer

Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

Life is short and art is long.

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.