The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

Fortune favors the audacious.

He does good to himself who does good to his friend.

Frugality is a handsome income.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.