Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
Beauty and folly are generally companions.
The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.
The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.