It is best to live however one can be.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.