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.

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.

The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.

Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.