The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

...be more guided by hope than fear.

Why wait for your happiness to come from your future blessings, when this moment already has all you need to live happily?

Every second you think meaningless, makes your minutes less productive and take you hours behind

Love is stronger than hate.

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

The clock moves on and hours pass too quickly

While there's no 'I' in team, there's also no 'you', okay? So back off.

No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.

Instead of criticizing, find out how to help.