What Is Birth To A Man If

Many Delight More In Giving Of Presents Than In Paying Their Debts.

It Is No Less Vain To Wish Death Than It Is Cowardly To Fear It.

What Is Birth To A Man If It Shall Be A Stain To His Dead Ancestors To Have Left Such An Offspring?

For As Much As To Understand And To Be Mighty Are Great Qualities, The Higher That They Be, They Are So Much The Less To Be Esteemed If Goodness Also Abound Not In The Possessor.

Since Bodily Strength Is But A Servant To The Mind, It Were Very Barbarous And Preposterous That Force Should Be Made Judge Over Reason.