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.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

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.

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.