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A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.
Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable.
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
The best remedy for disturbances is to let them run their course, for so they quiet down.
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.
If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.
Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.
There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.
Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value.
Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.
No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
La galantería y la honra tienen esta ventaja, que se quedan: aquélla en quien la usa, ésta en quien la haze.
When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.