Help yourself and heaven will help you.
Better to suffer than to die.
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
By the work one knows the workman.
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses it would still be just to deem it good for something.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
The worst time is always the present.
All roads lead to Rome but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
In everything one must consider the end.
We are never content with our lot.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
The strongest passion is fear.
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
We risk all in being too greedy.
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
The more wary you are of danger the more likely you are to meet it.
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.