1. There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”
2. “Man’s mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.”
3. “Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”
4. “Time takes away the grief of men.”
5. “Concealed talents bring no reputation.”
6. “War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.”
7. “Humility is truth.”
8. “Fortune favors the audacious.”
9. “The desire to write grows with writing.”
10. “To know nothing is the happiest life.”
11. “Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men’s judgements of one another.”
12. “The most disadvantageous peace is better than most just war.”
13. “A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.”
14. “Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.”
15. “Don’t give advice before you are called upon.”
16. “Anyhing which can trouble has special merit in their eyes.”
17. “The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.”
18. “He who allows oppression shares the crime.”
19. “It is a greater advantage to be honesty educated than honorably born.”
20. “A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.”
21. “There is no joy in possession without sharing.”
22. “Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.”
23. “Frugality is a handsome income.”
24. “Man is to man either a god or a wolf.”
25. “Don’t be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.”
26. “Of two evils choose the least.”
27. “Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.”
28. “He who doesn’t sin is the greatest sinner of all.”
29. “Fools are without number.”
30. “The wedlock of minds will be greater than that of bodies.”
