The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.
No man ever became wise by chance.
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.