Begin with another's to end with your own.

Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you.

We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.