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

Be first the master of yourself

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

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

Superiority is always detested.