It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Give yourself time and room; what reason could not avoid, delay has often cured

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.