Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power

Passion colors all that it touches in its own hues.

To keep is more important than to make friends.

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Hope is a great falsifier of truth.

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.