The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.
If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Think globally, act locally.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.