Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.

Golden roofs break men's rest.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.