Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.