Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Life is a warfare against the malice of others.
It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.
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.
God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.