Life is a warfare against the malice of others.
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.