The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.

Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

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.

He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.

Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.

Superiority is always detested.