Success rarely brings satisfaction.

Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.

The worthless usually live long.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.