Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. Votes: 11
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity. Votes: 9
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. Votes: 7
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. Votes: 3
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. Votes: 2
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied. Votes: 0
Know or listen to those who know. Votes: 0
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side Votes: 0
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself. Votes: 0
Be first the master of yourself Votes: 0
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil. Votes: 0
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. Votes: 0
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. Votes: 0
Always act as if you were seen. Votes: 0
Hurry is the weakness of fools. Votes: 0
Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value. Votes: 0
When desire dies, fear is born. Votes: 0
Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality. Votes: 0
Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater. Votes: 0
Truth is for the minority. Votes: 0
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly. Votes: 0
If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness. Votes: 0
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill. Votes: 0
Hope is a great falsifier of truth. Votes: 0
The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it. Votes: 0
Know the great men of your age. Votes: 0
The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be. Votes: 0
Exaggeration is a branch of lying. Votes: 0
Surfeits of happiness are fatal. Votes: 0
Superiority is always detested. Votes: 0
Hear, see, and be silent. Votes: 0
The more merit, the less affection. Votes: 0
Cultivate those who can teach you. Votes: 0
There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art. Votes: 0
No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them. Votes: 0
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft. Votes: 0
Success rarely brings satisfaction. Votes: 0
Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods. Votes: 0
Leave your luck while still winning. Votes: 0
The worthless usually live long. Votes: 0