Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.
There is no road of flowers leading to glory.