Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
A sage has one advantage; he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
