Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.