The power of habit is very strong.
Always shun whatever may make you angry.
Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.
To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death.
Discord gives a relish for concord.
There is no need of spurs when the horse is running away.
Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.
Shun an angry man for a moment-your enemy forever.
There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy.
Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.
It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.
The friendship that can come to an end, never really began.
He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one.
It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.
There is no pain in the wound received in the moment of victory.
When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.
Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.
The empire of custom is most mighty.
Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.