- A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
- Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
- Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
- Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
- Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
- Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
- Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
- He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
- He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
- Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
- Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
- Know or listen to those who know.
- Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
- Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
- Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
- Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
- Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
- Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
- Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
- The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
- The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
- The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
- To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
- True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.
- True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
- When desire dies, fear is born.
- Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
- Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
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