You Should Avoid Making Yourself Too Clear

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.

One Deceit Needs Many Others, And So The Whole House Is Built In The Air And Must Soon Come To The Ground

Do Not Show Your Wounded Finger For Everything Will Knock Up Against It.

Know How To Keep Anticipation Alive: Always Strive To Feed It, By Letting The Much Promise More, And The One Achievement Be The Announcement Only Of A Greater. Put Not All Your Reserves Into The First Throw; The Great Trick Is To Dole Out Strength, And To Dole Out Mind, In Such A Fashion As To Bring Forward Increasingly The Fulfillment Of What Was Expected Of You.

Mediocrity Obtains More With Application Than Superiority Without It.