The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

Si siempre intentas hacer lo que QUIERES, a menudo estarás sacrificando lo que PUEDES hacer.

...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

Hay un tipo de hombre peor que un hombre jactancioso: uno que se queja.

If you will not reprove yourself,’ Saadi says, ‘you will not welcome reproof from another.

Si no te reprochas a ti mismo”, dice Saadi, “no aceptarás el reproche ajeno.

Presence and AbsenceA certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence: I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.