The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.

When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.

Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable.

What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right.

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.

The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.