Don’t lie, but don’t tell the whole truth.
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.
Hurry is the weakness of fools.
To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
A wise prince must never take things easy in times of peace.
The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.
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.
Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.
Harness the imagination, for she is the whole of happiness.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground.
Knowledge without courage is sterile.
Life is a warfare against the malice of others.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
The wise do at once what the fool does at last.
Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.