There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.

That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.

Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

Add little to little and there will be a big pile.

Trivial losses often prove great gains.