Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.

Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.

To overvalue something is a form of lying.