If patience is worth anything it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

I sometimes try to be miserable that I may do more work, but find it is a foolish experiment.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction, with humility gains good fortune.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Every book is a quotation, and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries, and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying and thereby they achieve great results.

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