The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

No practice exists in isolation.