"If you are wise live as you can if you cannot live as you would."
- Baltasar Gracian
"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it."
"Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it."
"One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity."
"He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold."
"Knowledge without courage is sterile."
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
"Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance."
"A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied."
"Friends are a second existence."