Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

He who cannot love must learn to flatter.

The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.

The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.