Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
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.
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.
Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Truth is for the minority.
Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.
None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others.
If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.
Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.
Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.
Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone.
Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.
God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
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