Surfeits of happiness are fatal.

Be first the master of yourself

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.

When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.

Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.