31 quotes found
“Be first the master of yourself”
“Knowledge without courage is sterile.”
“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
“Deal with people from whom you can learn”
“Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks.”
“Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense”
“One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.”
“Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.”
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... To find one real friend in a lifetime is a goo...”
“Though such authority and respect shouldn't be handed to all and sundry, have in caution's innermost room a confidant, a faithful mirror, whose correction you value when disillusionment is necessary.”
“The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.”
“Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.”
“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
“Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation de...”
“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.”
“A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.”
“We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.”
“Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its nose into places where it is not wanted.”
“Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of happiness. She sets to rights even the understanding. She sinks to tyranny, not satisfied with mer...”
“The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.”
“It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.”
