When you find Fortune favourable, stride boldly forward, for she favours the bold and, being a woman, the young. But if you have bad luck, keep retired so as not to redouble the influence of your unlucky star.

Though all the world is full of fools, there is none that thinks himself one, or even suspects the fact.

The Wise do at once what the Fool does at last.

Do not be the Slave of First Impressions.

Observation and Judgment. A man with these rules things, not they him.

Do not live in a Hurry. To know how to separate things is to know how to enjoy them.

You lose nothing if you gain your end. A good end gilds everything, however unsatisfactory the means. Thus at times it is part of the art of life to transgress the rules of the art, if you cannot end well otherwise.

The Sage should be Self-sufficing.

Find the Good in a Thing at once.