That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.