Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.