It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Life is a novel of mystery you never know which page will bring a good twist in the story. Keep on reading because happiness comes when it is most unexpected.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.