Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.