Edward Gibbon: The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Edward Gibbon

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Every man loves what he is good at. — Thomas Shadwell
C'est une grande habileté que de savoir cacher son habileté. — François de La Rochefoucauld
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities. — James Anthony Froude
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aut potentior te aut inbecillior laesit: si inbecillior, parce illi, si potentio — Seneca
We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of — Fernando Pessoa
I went into the temple, there to hear The teachers of our law, and to propose Wh — John Milton
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the e — Jane Austen
It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about an — Anton Chekhov
The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence. — Swami Vivekananda
Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
As to fidelity, there is no animal in the world so treacherous as man. Our histo — Michel de Montaigne