Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.
Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.
It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.
It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.
The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
The path to greatness is along with others.
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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