Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go.

La mort ne surprend point le sage:
Il est toujours prêt à partir.

Nothing happens to the wise man against his expectation.

A wise man’s life is all one preparation for death.

A wise man is never cheated, a virtuous man is never worried and a courageous man is never afraid.

He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

The wise man does not defy necessity.

We say that nothing happens to the wise man against his expectation.

But the wise man is fortified against all inroads; he is alert; he will not retreat before the attack of poverty, or of sorrow, or of disgrace, or of pain. He will walk undaunted both against them and among them.

The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

a misfortune cannot surprise a man who has already feared it.

Happy is the man who hath the hour of his death always before his eyes, and daily prepareth himself to die.