Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

"Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone."

"The wise does at once what the fool does at last."

"Never have a companion that casts you in the shade."

"Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness."

"Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way."

"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."

"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."

"Know or listen to those who know."

"The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger."

"It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice"

"One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground"

"God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time."

"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."

"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early"

"The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are"

"The path to greatness is along with others."

"A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity"

"A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity."

"He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold."

"Fortune pays sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration"

"Work is the price which is paid for reputation"

"Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand"

"A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a 'No,' sweetens truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself."

"Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good"

"Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after 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."

"There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled."

"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side."

"To oblige persons often costs little and helps much."

"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."

"Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets."

"He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well."

"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."

"Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do."

"Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check."

"He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave."

"To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth."

"I strive to be brief, and I become obscure."

"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards."

"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit."

"When desire dies, fear is born."

"Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second."

"Begin with another's to end with your own."

"Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one."

"Have friends. 'Tis a second existence."

"Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise."

"At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing."

"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art."

"One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity."