In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.- Desiderius Erasmus
In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you do not do it, and it would not happen.
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
Humility is truth.
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Fortune favors the audacious.
Fools are without number.
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
