It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone.
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.