“To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.”
“What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.”
“The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.”
“Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.”
“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.”
“The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.”
“The man of understanding finds everything laughable.”
“What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.”
“Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.”
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
“We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.”
“To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.”
“If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.”
“No one should be rich except those who understand it.”
“No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.”
“He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.”
“Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.”
“Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.”
“The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.”
“One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.”
“Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.”
“Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.”
“I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.”
“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”
“Before you can do something you must first be something.”
“There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.”
“Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.”
“Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other.”
“On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.”
“Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.”