Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.

Be first the master of yourself

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.