As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms - you'll be able to use them better when you're older.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

One should count each day a separate life.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it. —Qui dedit beneficium taceat; narrat qui accepit

All cruelty springs from weakness.

If you wished to be loved, love.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

The language of truth is simple.

If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

All art is an imitation of nature.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; its the intention, not the face-value of the gift, thats weighed.