Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Leave your luck while still winning.

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.