To keep is more important than to make friends.

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

The best remedy for disturbances is to let them run their course, for so they quiet down.

The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their joy, not in the sweet breath of Apollo, but in the smell of the crowd. And not in mind: Do not be taken in by what are miracles to the populace, for the ignorant do not rise above marveling. Thus the stupidity of a crowd is lost in admiration, even as the brain of an individual uncovers the trick.

You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.

Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.