What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

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

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.

Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.