There exists no more difficult art than living.
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
It is pleasant at times to play the madman.
One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.
If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.