There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.
When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.