Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.
Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.
Whom they have injured they also hate.
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.