If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

The most happy ought to wish for death.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.