Truth always lags last limping along on the arm of Time.
The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.
Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding better those who push forward who employ their enterprise who on the wings of their worth and valor seek...
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold.
At twenty a man is a peacock at thirty a lion at forty a camel at fifty a serpent at sixty a dog at seventy an ape at eighty nothing at all.
One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good for...
Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune the very ventilation of the soul.
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep in the other that it may not be dismayed.
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
There is no wilderness like a life without friends friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes it is a unique remedy against adversity and it soothes the soul.
If you are wise live as you can if you cannot live as you would.
A sage has one advantage he is immortal. If this is not his century many others will be.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Nothing really belongs to us but time which even he has who has nothing else.