All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.
Hope is a great falsifier of truth.
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.