Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

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Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit,...

Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit,...

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to...

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to...

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity

Know or listen to those who know.

Know or listen to those who know.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Do not carry a spirit of contradiction, for it is to be freighted with stupidity...

Do not carry a spirit of contradiction, for it is to be freighted with stupidity...

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink...

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink...

Evil report carries further than any applause.

Evil report carries further than any applause.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things...

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things...

Know or listen to those who know

Know or listen to those who know

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink...

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink...

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

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

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

Begin with another's to end with your own.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy;...

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy;...

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel,...

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel,...