Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
Great people create great acts of kindness.
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Where one door shuts another opens.
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.
The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
Believe there are no limits but the sky.
To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
Love not what you are but only what you may become.
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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