It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.