There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

To keep is more important than to make friends.

Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.