The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.
Fortune favours the audacious.
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.
Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.
Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he'll not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.