He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.
The best ideas are common property.
Luck never made a man wise.
The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.