It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
Success rarely brings satisfaction.
Cultivate those who can teach you.
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.
Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.