Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

No path of flowers leads to glory.