Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

Patience and shuffle the cards.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

There is no proverb that is not true.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.