That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

No one can have all he desires.

The fortune of war is always doubtful.

We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain