If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

Do nothing immoderate.

What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

Do not make too much haste on one's road.

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

Learn how to regulate one's own house well.

For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.

self-awareness: the ability to realize what we are doing as we do it, and understand why we are doing it.

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path mere rambling is interminable.

Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.

Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.

Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.

Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

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