To be at ease is better than to be at business.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.

The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.