Yes and no are soon said, but give much to think over.

Cultivate those who can teach you.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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