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.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship.
