To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Always desire to learn something useful.
You never know what motivates you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Only the educated are free.
Know or listen to those who know.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.