How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

Everything transitory is but an image.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

In comradeship is danger countered best.