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

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.

The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.