Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 29, 1547 Death: April 22, 1616
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are..
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all..
Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory..
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise..
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair..
Love not what you are but only what you may become..
Until death it is all life..
Where one door shuts another opens..
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?.
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the s….
The man who is prepared has his battle half fought..
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd..
Believe there are no limits but the sky..
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn..
In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. B….
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within..
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience..
How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?.
In the night all cats are gray..
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be..
Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, a….