Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

—Italian proverb

The best armor is to keep out of range.

—Italian proverb

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

—Italian proverb

Bed is the poor man's opera.

—Italian proverb

Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves.

—Italian proverb

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it is highly unprofitable to most people.

—E. B. White

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

—Voltaire

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

—US Declaration of Independence

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

—Publilius Syrus

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

—Marquis de Vauvenargues