Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
From Baltasar Gracian
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.
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
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.
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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