Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Cheerfulness is proper to the cock, which rejoices over every little thing, and crows with varied and lively movements.

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.