But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.