"The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious."
- Baltasar Gracian
"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep in the other that it may not be dismayed."
"Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame."
"Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word never to withdraw one."
"Superiority is always detested."
"Nothing really belongs to us but time which even he has who has nothing else."
"Time and I against any two."
"Truth always lags last limping along on the arm of Time."
"It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody scarcely less to be of use to everybody."
"Good things when short are twice as good."