Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.