Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
There is no need to show your ability before everyone.
Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.
Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.
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.
Beauty and folly are generally companions.
It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Exaggeration is a branch of lying.
Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
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.
An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.
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 pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.
Truth is for the minority.
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.
Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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