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

The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

Truth is for the minority.

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

Do not make Mistakes about Character. That is the worst and yet easiest error. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods. In dealing with men, more than with other things, it is necessary to look within. To know men is different from knowing things. It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.