You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.

You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.

Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.

Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.