We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.

The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

What once were vices are manners now.