Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
Whatever begins, also ends.