Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.
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.
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 good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.