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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

It is better to learn late than never.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

Speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

No one should be judge in his own case.

Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

What is left when honor is lost

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Hares can gamble over the body of a dead lion.

It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.

There is no legal obligation to perform impossibilities.

There is no legal obligation to perform impossibilities.

In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.

Rumor is not always wrong. - from Life of Agricola

The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.

Break the leg of a bad habit.

He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire.

Technology is dominated by two types of people those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Above all things, reverence yourself.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.