The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value.
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
Don’t take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Many people who pretend to be very busy have the least to do.
To keep is more important than to make friends.
He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.
When desire dies, fear is born.
Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other’s slave.
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Be first the master of yourself.