Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
We learn not in the school, but in life.
He who is brave is free.
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.