It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.
Exaggeration is a branch of lying.
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one’s knowledge or one’s taste.
Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.
When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.
Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.
Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
The path to greatness is along with others.
We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.
What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right.
Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.
The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Quit while you’re ahead. All the best gamblers do.
You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.