Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.
Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.
Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.
It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.