Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.