Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.

Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.