Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Our necessities never equal our wants.