What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.
The part of life which we really live is short.
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.