The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.
Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.
Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.
An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.
Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.
Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.
Beauty and folly are generally companions.
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Hope is a great falsifier of truth.
Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.
You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.
Truth is for the minority.
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.
Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone.
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