The Germans, a race eager for war.
The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.
Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.