A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
We are born under circumstances that would be favorable if we did not abandon them. It was nature's intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make...
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.
errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.
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