The best ideas are common property.

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.