You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.
Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.
It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
Many things have fallen only to rise higher.