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All the best gamblers do. A fine retreat matters as much as a stylish attack. As soon as they are enough — even when they...

It is the subtlest point in your dealings with others. It can be used to test the wits and cunningly probe the heart. Some insinuation...

in order to act, and in order to commit yourself. This matters more than identifying your predominant humor and understanding your physical makeup. It is...

Fools are lost by not thinking. They never conceive even the half of things, and because they do not perceive either their advantages or their...

Cultivate it and nurture all the rest. All people could have achieved eminence in something if only they had known what they excelled at. Identify...

One of life’s great lessons lies in knowing how to refuse, and it is even more important to refuse yourself, both to business and to...

It helps sovereigns to win the good graces of all. Ruling others has one advantage : you can do more good than anyone else. Friends...

Bad luck is usually brought on by stupidity, and among outcasts nothing is so contagious. Never open the door to the least of evils, for...

even less with chimerical ones that bring more scorn than renown. Caprice has founded many sects, and the sane person should flee from all of...

Side with reason and do this so steadily that neither vulgar passion nor tyrannical violence will make you stray from it. But where will we...

Certainly not in your taste. What a wise person it was who did not want his things to please the many! The discreet never gorge...

Perfection isn’t quantity, but quality. Very good things have always been small and rare; muchness brings discredit. Even among men, the giants are usually the...

The art of moving people’s wills involves more skill than determination. You must know how to get inside the other person. Each will has its...

Knowing how to reason was once the art of arts. It is no longer enough. One must also be a diviner, especially in matters where...

You must sometimes rein it in and sometimes encourage it. On imagination all happiness depends : it should be governed by good sense. Sometimes it...

Few people live without some moral flaw or character defect, and they give in to it when it would be easy to cure. The prudence...