Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. |
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check. |
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. |
It is a great art to know how to sell wind |
It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow. |
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it |
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice |
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. |
It is difficult to find a courteous person today who isn't trying to sell you something |
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. |
It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it. |
Know or listen to those who know |
Know or listen to those who know |
Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness. |
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. |