Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

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

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

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

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.

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