Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

I've never met a strong person with an easy past.

A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.

Alone or not, you gotta walk forward.

A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.

Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

Nothing worth doing right is easy.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love -Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

The 'good food' is...the food of the Word of God, for as food builds up the tissues of the body, repairs waste, and preserves us in health, so the Word of God is the complete food of the soul.