“Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.”

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.

You will stir up the hornets.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

I am myself my own commander.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.

He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.

Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.

Yelling and screaming won’t really get what I want from my kids.

Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

I have to be a calmer person, because my anger can look pretty terrifying to a young person.

The worst reaction someone can have is, “eh.”

Security wins many battles but loses the security war.

Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.