Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Every advantage has its tax

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

To teach isto learn twice.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.