One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.