Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.

Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.