The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.
You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.
Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an incorrigible ass who will never listen to any one. Even the most surpassing intellect should find a place for friendly counsel. Sovereignty itself must learn to lean. There are some that are incorrigible simply because they are inaccessible: They fall to ruin because none dares to extricate them. The highest should have the door open for friendship; it may prove the gate of help. A friend must be free to advise, and even to upbraid, without feeling embarrassed.
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.
It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.
If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.
Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.
Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.
Hurry is the weakness of fools.
Politeness is the chief sign of culture.
Know or listen to those who know.
Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.
Words are feminine; deeds are masculine.
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
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