Hurry is the weakness of fools..

Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration..

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated..

Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties..

La galantería y la honra tienen esta ventaja, que se quedan: aquélla en quien la usa, ésta en quien la haze..

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

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing..

Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their go….

Hear, see, and be silent..

Exaggeration is a branch of lying..

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste..

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done..

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit..

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

Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold….

A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence..

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it..

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

Know or listen to those who know..

Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a prince is not a gr….

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame..