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

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.