Book: The aphorisms of worldly wisdom

In the world you can only choose between loneliness and vulgarity.

A wise man will first seek to avoid all sorrow, to produce calm and leisure; he will be looking for a quiet, modest life in which he hadn't touched, and therefore, when a certain acquaintance with the so-called people, he will opt for a closed life, and when the big mind is all alone.

All joy is illusory, and to grieve about what they lost - petty, even ridiculous.

Society can be compared to fire, whose smart heated in a known distance from him, not popped in the flame like the fool who once burned, rescued in the cold of loneliness, complaining that fire burns.

Used to be in society to a certain extent alone, therefore, does not Express just what he thinks, and the other side not to trust what people say; do not expect too much neither in the moral nor the mental attitude and to develop that indifference to their opinions, which can only be created true tolerance.

Domestic poverty and leads in the end to the outside.

Prudent to care about preserving their health and developing the abilities than about the accumulation of wealth.

When the inner wealth of the person does not become much from a destiny to claim.

Man usually like the more, the lower demands it makes on the mind and to the soul of the other, though seriously, not out of hypocrisy, and not because of the indulgence which arises from contempt.

Should refrain in the conversation from all critical, though friendly comments: to offend people - easy to fix it - difficult, if not impossible.

When two people act the same way - get still not the same.

The sullen, angry people, through politeness and courtesy to make accommodating and cheerful.

Savages eat each other, cultural people cheat, and it's called life.

People can see each other only so much, how many he has, and he can understand another only commensurate with his own mind.