To keep is more important than to make friends.

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

You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.

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.

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.

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