"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."

"There are many things in life that are not worth having, but there is nothing that is not worth doing."

"Folly is the only thing that keeps men from despair."

"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."

"Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak."