No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.

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 to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]

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.