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 a nothing at all. |
At twenty the will rules, At thirty the intellect, At forty the judgment |
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. |
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others |
Beauty and folly are generally companions. |
Begin with another's to end with your own. |
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone |
Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter |
Do not carry a spirit of contradiction, for it is to be freighted with stupidity and with peevishness, and your intelligence should plot against it; though it may well be the mark of mental genius to see objection, a wrangler about everything cannot |
Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it. |
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. |
Don't take the wrong side in an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side |
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. |
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. |
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. |