When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

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.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence.