Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.
We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.