The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

Luck never made a man wise.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.