The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead.
The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.
The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.
To the man who is afraid everything rustles.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.