When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.
The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.