Pg 10 Have a store of witty sayings and gallant deeds, and know when to use them, for a joke, not a pedantic sermon, is often the best way to offer advice.
Pg 17 Think with the few and speak with the many.
Pg 21 Diligence carries out quickly what intelligence decides upon slowly. Fools love haste; since the never see any difficulty, they act without reflecting. Promptness is the mother of good fortune. He who left nothing until tomorrow achieved many things.
Pg 53 To give yourself credit means you are in debt to everyone else.
Pg 64 Take more care not to fail once than to succeed a hundred times. Nobody looks at the sun when it's shining, everyone when it's eclipsed. The masses, ever critical, will not recount your successes, only your failures.
Pg 83 Openness flourished in the age of gold; malice does in this age of iron.
Pg 85 To master yourself, you need to scrutinize yourself.
Pg 99 Many pleasurable things don't have to belong to you. The first day the pleasure is all for the owner, after that, for others.
Pg 108 Be loved with appreciation rather than affection, for such love is a mark of great people.
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