That grief is light which can take counsel.
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.
There is no power greater than true affection.
A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
Resistance to oppression is second nature.
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.
It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
There is no evil without its compensation.
It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.
Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.
