"The wise man chooses well."

"Death is the worst; a fate which all must try; And for our country 'tis a bliss to die."

"Sleep, that sweet state in which no man is wise."

"We men are wretched things."

"And nature is of mortals once deceased. For they nor muscle have, nor flesh, nor bone; All those (the spirit from the body once. Divorced) the violence of fire consumes, And, like a dream, the soul fl…"