It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
No man was ever wise by chance.
To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.
He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.