We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

What is true belongs to me!