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Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.