Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
It is ill to praise, and worse to reprimand in matters that you do not understand.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
He who thinks little, errs much.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
Fear arises sooner than anything else.
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.