Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.
The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.
A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… To find one real friend in a lifetime is a good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Though such authority and respect shouldn’t be handed to all and sundry, have in caution’s innermost room a confidant, a faithful mirror, whose correction you value when disillusionment is necessary.
We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.
Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its nose into places where it is not wanted.
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.
Respect yourself is you would have others respect you.
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.
The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.