Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief.

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

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

There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.