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.
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.
What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
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.
Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
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 word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
A picture is a poem without words
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.
What's well begun is half done.
I teach that all men are mad.
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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.
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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