Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.
Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature.
The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.