The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.
All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.
Superiority is always detested.
Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.