People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

Every second is of infinite value.

These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.