Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.

Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

While the body is young and fine, the soul blunders, but as the body grows old it attains its highest power. Again, every good soul uses mind; but no body can produce mind: for how should that which is without mind produce mind? Again, while the soul uses the body as an instrument, it is not in it; just as the engineer is not in his engines (although many engines move without being touched by any one).