Knowing How To Keep A Friend Is

Advice Is Sometimes Transmitted More Successfully Through A Joke Than Grave Teaching.

I Strive To Be Brief, And I Become Obscure.

Be Known For Pleasing Others, Especially If You Govern Them. Ruling Other Has One Advantage: You Can Do More Good Than Anyone Else.

If There Is Nothing Left To Desire, There Is Everything To Fear, An Unhappy State Of Happiness.

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.