He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.
It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.