It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
The fortune of war is always doubtful.
Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.
Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.