Superiority is always detested.
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Friends are a second existence.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.
Knowledge without courage is sterile.
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Begin with another's to end with your own.
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
Good things when short are twice as good.
'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.
Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.