It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
The part of life which we really live is short.
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world’s caprice, you will never be rich.
It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.
Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
True love hates and will not bear delay.
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.