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.
What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.
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.
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
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.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
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 despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away. [Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]
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.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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.
In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.
The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
He is always a slave who cannot live on little.
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