Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.

God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.

People do not die - they kill themselves.

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Mercy often inflicts death.