One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

God who sends the wound sends the medicine.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

The most artful part in a play,may is the fool’s

To be prepared is half the victory.

Tell me what company you keep and I’ll tell you what you are.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

And the first thing I would do in my government, I would have nobody to control me, I would be absolute; and who but I: now, he that is absolute, can do what he likes;...

But my thoughts ran woolgathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

Fair and softly goes far.

Every one is the son of his own works.

A woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.