If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.