Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

Know the great men of your age.

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

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

Friendship multiplies blessings and...soothes the soul.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you.