Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

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

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.