101
He is the happiest man who can set the end of his life in connection with the beginning.
102
So obstinately contradictory is man that you cannot compel him to his advantage, yet he yields before everything that forces him to his hurt.
103
Forethought is simple, afterthought manifold.
104
A state of things in which every day brings some new trouble is not the right one.
105
When people suffer by failing to look before them, nothing is commoner than trying to look out for some possible remedy.
106
The Hindoos of the Desert make a solemn vow to eat no fish.
107
To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.
108
It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.
109
Truth belongs to the man, error to his age. This is why it has been said that, while the misfortune of the age caused his error, the force of his soul made him emerge from the error with glory.