The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.
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.
There is no need to show your ability before everyone.
What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.