Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Don’t show off every day, or you’ll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one...

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another’s fame.

Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.

Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of happiness. She sets to rights even the understanding. She sinks to tyranny, not satisfied with mere faith, but demanding...

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.

Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones – the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

When desire dies, fear is born.

Have friends. ‘Tis a second existence.

Señal de tener gastada la fama propia es cuidar de la infamia ajena.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.