“Trust one who has gone through it.”

Fortune sides with him who dares.

No benefits can be expected from war.

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

Time is flying never to return.

The greatest wealth is health.

Friend, have the courage To care little for wealth, and shape yourself, You too, to merit godhead

The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.

The dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.

Every man’s last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave.

Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds.

Time carries all things, even our wits, away.

Every man’s last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave.

Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds.

Time carries all things, even our wits, away.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Of course I write from experience, but I also do write from things that have happened in the world.

Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

Dance Moms’ was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had in my life!

If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn’t work.

A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.

Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.