Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.