Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.