To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.
To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.
If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.