Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.
A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.
Life is short and art is long.
Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.