It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

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

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.

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

No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the key of caution inside, on the other side of the keyhole.