Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

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

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.