Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.
Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
Surfeits of happiness are fatal.
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
Superiority is always detested.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may no fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Friends are a second existence.
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of Time.
A sage has one advantage; he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
It is great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. 'Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of soul.
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
A wise gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessing and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.
If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.
Words are feminine; deeds are masculine.
Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.
'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty, nothing at all.
Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it.
Begin with another's to end with your own.
Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.
The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
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