If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.