Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.
If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.
Keep your place in life and your place will keep you