Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers

People of great faith are almost always lacking in reason, while people possessed of great reason often suffer from a pitiful lack of faith. So it always happens that people of great faith can move the world but cannot steer it, while people possessed of great reason excel at steering the world but are hopeless at moving it

It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented

A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles

Depending on someone to make for you money is quite like depending on them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby

The manager needs only a molehill to build a mountain, but the money-ger needs a full mountain to build another.