It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
Only the educated are free.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
