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.
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.
I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.
What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.
The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.
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.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
Force without reason falls of its own weight.
In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.
A picture is a poem without words
What's well begun is half done.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.
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