Always leave something to wish for, otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

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The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

A man of honour should never forget what he is, because he sees what others are.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect, but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.