If you are wise live as you can if you cannot live as you would.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold.

Knowledge without courage is sterile.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.

Friends are a second existence.

Friends are a second existence.

Friends are a second existence.

Friends are a second existence.

Friends are a second existence.

Friends are a second existence.

Friends are a second existence.

Friends are a second existence.

There is no wilderness like a life without friends friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes it is a unique remedy against adversity and it soothes the soul.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune the very ventilation of the soul.

Friends are a second existence.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Good things when short are twice as good.

Wise men appreciate all men for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.

Surfeits of happiness are fatal.

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding better those who push forward who employ their enterprise who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck and to effectively gain her favor.

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 nothing at all.

'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

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.

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word never to withdraw one.

Superiority is always detested.

Nothing really belongs to us but time which even he has who has nothing else.

Time and I against any two.

Truth always lags last limping along on the arm of Time.

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

Good things when short are twice as good.

A sage has one advantage he is immortal. If this is not his century many others will be.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Words are feminine deeds are masculine.

Words are feminine deeds are masculine.

Begin with another's to end with your own.