You will die not because you're ill, but because ' you’re alive.

One must take all one’s life to learn how to live, and, what will perhaps make you winder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.

A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.

Reason wishes that the judgment it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgment it has given seem to be just.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

Those whom men have injured they despise.

The wish for healing has ever been the half of health.