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

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected..

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand..

The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance..

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance..

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly..

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

A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed..

The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him..

Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like ….

All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal..

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed..

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness..

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement..

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction..

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self..

Politeness is the chief sign of culture..

He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything..

Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise..

Always act as if you were seen..

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