Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
As long as you live, learn how to live.
Life is long if you know how to use it.
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.