An unpopular rule is never long maintained.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.