The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. - Montesquieu

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

Translation: I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

Translation: Horace and Aristotle told us of the virtues of their fathers, and the vices of their own time, and authors down through the centuries have told us the same. If they were right, men would now be bears.