Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way. |
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. |
Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect |
Evil report carries further than any applause |
For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done |
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. |
Fortune pays sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration |
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. |
God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time. |
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. |
Have friends. 'Tis a second existence. |
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. |
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave. |
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well. |
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. |