A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
War loves to seek its victims in the young.
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.