The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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.
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.