The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.