Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.
Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.