Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him