Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.

Native American Proverb (as seen in Pagosa Springs, CO)

Someone else’s fool is a joke, your own fool a calamity.

A folk proverb quoted by Solzhenitsyn.

Most worldly affairs are performed by themselves.

Montaigne

The wind is blowing; adore the wind.

From the Pythagorean symbola

For there are these three things that endure: Faith, Hope and Love, but the greatest of these is Love.
Run after love and be zealous for the gifts of The Spirit, that you may know the truth.

1 Corinthians 13-14 

The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine.


Ancient proverb coming down through Sextus Empiricus