Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.