Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Long only for what you have.

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.