Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.
Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.