Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.