It Is Much Easier To Try One's

Though Ambition In Itself Is A Vice, Yet It Is Often The Parent Of Virtues. [lat., Licet Ipsa Vitium Sit Ambitio, Frequenter Tamen Causa Virtutem Est.]

Though Ambition May Be A Fault In Itself, It Is Often The Mother Of Virtues.

If You Direct Your Whole Thought To Work Itself, None Of The Things Which Invade Eyes Or Ears Will Reach The Mind.

A Man Who Tries To Surpass Another May Perhaps Succeed In Equaling Inot Actually Surpassing Him, But One Who Merely Follows Can Never Quite Come Up With Him: A Follower, Necessarily, Is Always Behind.

A Liar Must Have A Good Memory. -mendacem Oportet Esse Memorem