Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

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

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.

Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.

Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.