“How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.”

The happiest life is to be without thought.

Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.

To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.

You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.

Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.

Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.

Remember there is no success without hard work.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.