Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.
A picture is a poem without words
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
What's well begun is half done.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it
There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.
Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.
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