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

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

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.