Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.
He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.
Successful villany is called virtue.
There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.