Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.