As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Chances rule men and not men chances.