Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Peacemakers not only live, they rule life.
Hear, see, and be silent.
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones – the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax.
When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.
Truth is for the minority.
Know the great men of your age.
Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter.
The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.
It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.
It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.
Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end.
If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.
The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
Truth always lags behind, limping along on the arm of Time.
Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.
Beauty and folly are generally companions.