You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.