Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

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

Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.