Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
A joke's a very serious thing.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.