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

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.

The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.

The more merit, the less affection.

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

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.