“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”

“Perfect is the enemy of good.”

“The perfect is the enemy of the good.”

“Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)”

“It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”

“Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.”

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”