To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.