Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo A rolling stone can gather no moss.
What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!
Wise man also fears a weak enemy.
The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.
You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.
A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost.
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.
We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.
Deliberando saepe perit occasio.
At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man’s work.
When reason rules, money is a blessing.
The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium.
Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur.
It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes.
Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid.