There is no desert like being friendless.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground

All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.

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.

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

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