It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other

What then remains but that we still should cry for being born, and, being born, to die?

What then remains, but that we still should cry,/ Not to be born, or being born, to die?

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind