Wise Sayings

A day of fortune is like a harvest-day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe. - Goethe

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much. - Richter

This world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it. - Goldoni

Real and solid happiness springs from moderation. - Goethe

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever. - Seneca

We must oblige everybody as much as we can; we have often need of assistance from those inferior to ourselves. - La Fontaine