The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. |
The wish for healing has always been half of health. |
There is no genius without a mixture of madness. |
To wish to progress is the largest part of progress. |
While we are postponing life speeds up. |
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. |
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in a firmness of mind and mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as talk; and to make our actions and words all of a color. |
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them. |
You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear. |