True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
To keep is more important than to make friends.
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Harness the imagination, for she is the whole of happiness.
The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.