Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.