The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
I can, therefore I am.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.