“Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.”

The good befriend themselves.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

The tyrant is a child of pride.

Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)

Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

As an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege – then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.

As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.

It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don’t like them very much.

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

For paranoia about ‘what other people think’ : remember that only some hate, a very few love – and almost all just don’t care.

If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.