Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.