I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

To write well express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Truth stands even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

Stupidity talks vanity acts.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

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