The Snake Which Cannot Cast Its Skin

There Are People Who Are So Presumptuous That They Know No Other Way To Praise A Greatness That They Publicly Admire Than By Representing It As A Preliminary Stage And Bridge Leading To Themselves.

A Friend Whose Hopes We Cannot Satisfy Is A Friend We Would Rather Have As An Enemy.

The Sick Are The Greatest Danger For The Healthy; It Is Not From The Strongest That Harm Comes To The Strong, But From The Weakest.

Women Are Quite Able To Make Friends With A Man; But To Preserve Such A Friendship - That No Doubt Requires The Assistance Of A Slight Physical Antipathy

The Best Belongs To Me And Mine; And If We Are Not Given It, We Take It: The Best Food, The Purest Sky, The Most Robust Thoughts, The Fairest Women!