Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.
Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
He turns not back who is bound to a star.