- Aphorism #250 When to change the Conversation.
- Aphorism #251 Use human Means as if there were no divine ones, and divine as if ther
- Aphorism #252 Neither belong entirely to Yourself nor entirely to Others.
- Aphorism #253 Do not Explain overmuch.
- Aphorism #254 Never despise an Evil, however small,
- Aphorism #255 Do Good a little at a time, but often.
- Aphorism #256 Go armed against Discourtesy,
- Aphorism #257 Never let Matters come to a Rupture,
- Aphorism #258 Find out some one to share your Troubles.
- Aphorism #259 Anticipate Injuries and turn them into Favours.
- Aphorism #260 We belong to none and none to us, entirely.
- Aphorism #261 Do not follow up a Folly.
- Aphorism #262 Be able to Forget.
- Aphorism #263 Many things of Taste one should not possess oneself.
- Aphorism #264 Have no careless Days.
- Aphorism #265 Set those under you difficult Task,
- Aphorism #266 Do not become Bad from sheer Goodness.
- Aphorism #267 Silken Words, sugared Manners.
- Aphorism #268 The Wise do at once what the Fool does at last.
- Aphorism #269 Make use of the Novelty of your Position;
- Aphorism #270 Do not condemn alone that which pleases all.
- Aphorism #271 In every Occupation if you know little stick to the safest.
- Aphorism #272 Sell Things by the Tariff of Courtesy.
- Aphorism #273 Comprehend their Dispositions with whom you deal,
- Aphorism #274 Be Attractive.
- Aphorism #275 Join in the Game as far as Decency permits.
- Aphorism #276 Know how to renew your Character,
- Aphorism #277 Display yourself.
- Aphorism #278 Avoid Notoriety in all Things.
- Aphorism #279 Do not contradict the Contradicter.
- Aphorism #280 Be Trustworthy.
- Aphorism #281 Find Favour with Men of Sense.
- Aphorism #282 Make use of Absence to make yourself more esteemed or valued.
- Aphorism #283 Have the Gift of Discovery.
- Aphorism #284 Do not be Importunate,
- Aphorism #285 Never die of another's Ill-luck.
- Aphorism #286 Do not become responsible for all or for every one,
- Aphorism #287 Never act in a Passion.
- Aphorism #288 Live for the Moment.
- Aphorism #289 Nothing depreciates a Man more than to show he is a Man like other Men
- Aphorism #291 Know how to Test.
- Aphorism #292 Let your personal Qualities surpass those of your Office,
- Aphorism #293 Maturity.
- Aphorism #294 Be moderate in your Views.
- Aphorism #295 Do not affect what you have not effected.
- Aphorism #296 Noble Qualities.
- Aphorism #297 Always act as if your Acts were seen.
- Aphorism #298 Three Things go to a Prodigy.
- Aphorism #299 Leave off Hungry.
- Aphorism #300 In one word, be a Saint.
- Aphorism #1 Everything is at its Acme;
- Aphorism #2 Character and Intellect:
- Aphorism #3 Keep Matters for a Time in Suspense.
- Aphorism #4 Knowledge and Courage
- Aphorism #5 Create a Feeling of Dependence.
- Aphorism #6 A Man at his Highest Point.
- Aphorism #7 Avoid Victories over Superiors.
- Aphorism #8 To be without Passions.
- Aphorism #9 Avoid the Faults of your Nation.
- Aphorism #10 Fortune and Fame.
- Aphorism #11 Cultivate those who can teach you.
- Aphorism #12 Nature and Art:
- Aphorism #13 Act sometimes on Second Thoughts, sometimes on First Impulse.
- Aphorism #14 The Thing Itself and the Way it is done.
- Aphorism #15 Keep Ministering Spirits.
- Aphorism #16 Knowledge and Good Intentions
- Aphorism #17 Vary the Mode of Action;
- Aphorism #18 Application and Ability.
- Aphorism #19 Arouse no Exaggerated Expectations on entering.
- Aphorism #20 A Man of the Age.
- Aphorism #21 The Art of being Lucky.
- Aphorism #22 A Man of Knowledge to the Point.
- Aphorism #23 Be Spotless:
- Aphorism #24 Keep the Imagination under Control;
- Aphorism #25 Know how to take a Hint.
- Aphorism #26 Find out each Man's Thumbscrew.
- Aphorism #27 Prize Intensity more than Extent.
- Aphorism #28 Common in Nothing.
- Aphorism #29 A Man of Rectitude
- Aphorism #30 Have naught to do with Occupations of Ill-repute,
- Aphorism #31 Select the Lucky and avoid the Unlucky.
- Aphorism #32 Have the Reputation of being Gracious.
- Aphorism #33 Know how to Withdraw.
- Aphorism #34 Know your strongest Point--
- Aphorism #35 Think over Things, most over the most Important.
- Aphorism #36 In Acting or Refraining, weigh your Luck.
- Aphorism #37 Keep a Store of Sarcasms, and know how to use them.
- Aphorism #38 Leave your Luck while Winning.
- Aphorism #39 Recognise when Things are ripe, and then enjoy them.
- Aphorism #40 The Goodwill of People.
- Aphorism #41 Never Exaggerate.
- Aphorism #42 Born to Command.
- Aphorism #43 Think with the Few and speak with the Many.
- Aphorism #44 Sympathy with great Minds.
- Aphorism #45 Use, but do not abuse, Cunning.
- Aphorism #46 Master your Antipathies.
- Aphorism #47 Avoid "Affairs of Honour"
- Aphorism #48 Be Thorough.
- Aphorism #49 Observation and Judgment.
- Aphorism #50 Never lose Self-respect,
- Aphorism #51 Know how to Choose well.
- Aphorism #52 Never be put out.
- Aphorism #53 Diligent and Intelligent.
- Aphorism #54 Know how to show your Teeth.
- Aphorism #55 Wait.
- Aphorism #56 Have Presence of Mind.
- Aphorism #57 Slow and Sure.
- Aphorism #58 Adapt Yourself to your Company.
- Aphorism #59 Finish off well.
- Aphorism #60 A Sound Judgment.
- Aphorism #61 To Excel in what is Excellent.
- Aphorism #62 Use good Instruments.
- Aphorism #63 To he the First of the Kind is an Excellence,
- Aphorism #64 Avoid Worry.
- Aphorism #65 Elevated Taste.
- Aphorism #66 See that Things end well.
- Aphorism #67 Prefer Callings "en Evidence."
- Aphorism #68 It is better to help with Intelligence than with Memory.
- Aphorism #69 Do not give way to every common Impulse.
- Aphorism #70 Know how to Refuse.
- Aphorism #71 Do not Vacillate.
- Aphorism #72 Be Resolute.
- Aphorism #73 Utilise Slips.
- Aphorism #74 Do not be Unsociable.
- Aphorism #75 Choose an Heroic Ideal;
- Aphorism #76 Do not always be Jesting.
- Aphorism #77 Be all Things to all Men
- Aphorism #78 The Art of undertaking Things.
- Aphorism #79 A Genial Disposition
- Aphorism #80 Take care to get Information.
- Aphorism #81 Renew your Brilliance.
- Aphorism #82 Drain Nothing to the Dregs, neither Good nor Ill.
- Aphorism #83 Allow Yourself some venial Fault.
- Aphorism #84 Make use of your Enemies.
- Aphorism #85 Do not play Manille.
- Aphorism #86 Prevent Scandal.
- Aphorism #87 Culture and Elegance.
- Aphorism #88 Let your Behaviour be Fine and Noble.
- Aphorism #89 Know Yourself
- Aphorism #90 The Secret of Long Life
- Aphorism #91 Never set to work at anything if you have any doubts of its Prudence
- Aphorism #92 Transcendant Wisdom.
- Aphorism #93 Versatility.
- Aphorism #94 Keep the extent of your Abilities unknown.
- Aphorism #95 Keep Expectation alive.
- Aphorism #96 The highest Discretion.
- Aphorism #97 Obtain and preserve a Reputation.
- Aphorism #98 Write your Intentions in Cypher.
- Aphorism #99 Reality and Appearance.
- Aphorism #100 A Man without Illusions, a wise Christian, a philosophic Courtier.
- Aphorism #101 One half of the World laughs at the other, and Fools are they all.
- Aphorism #102 Be able to stomach big slices of Luck.
- Aphorism #103 Let each keep up his Dignity.
- Aphorism #104 Try your hand at Office.
- Aphorism #105 Don't be a Bore.
- Aphorism #106 Do not parade your Position.
- Aphorism #107 Show no Self-satisfaction.
- Aphorism #108 The Path to Greatness is along with Others.
- Aphorism #109 Be not Censorious.
- Aphorism #110 Do not wait till you are a Sinking Sun.
- Aphorism #111 Have Friends.
- Aphorism #112 Gain Good-will.
- Aphorism #113 In Prosperity prepare for Adversity.
- Aphorism #114 Never Compete.
- Aphorism #115 Get used to the Failings of your Familiars,
- Aphorism #116 Only act with Honourable Men.
- Aphorism #117 Never talk of Yourself.
- Aphorism #118 Acquire the Reputation of Courtesy;
- Aphorism #119 Avoid becoming Disliked.
- Aphorism #120 Live Practically.
- Aphorism #121 Do not make a Business of what is no Business.
- Aphorism #122 Distinction in Speech and Action.
- Aphorism #123 Avoid Affectation.
- Aphorism #124 Get Yourself missed.
- Aphorism #125 Do not be a Black List.
- Aphorism #126 Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in not hiding it when comm
- Aphorism #127 Grace in Everything.
- Aphorism #128 Highmindedness.
- Aphorism #129 Never complain.
- Aphorism #130 Do and be seen Doing.
- Aphorism #131 Nobility of Feeling.
- Aphorism #132 Revise your Judgments.
- Aphorism #133 Better Mad with the rest of the World than Wise alone.
- Aphorism #134 Double your Resources.
- Aphorism #135 Do not nourish the Spirit of Contradiction.
- Aphorism #136 Post Yourself in the Centre of Things.
- Aphorism #137 The Sage should be Self-sufficing.
- Aphorism #138 The Art of letting Things alone.
- Aphorism #139 Recognise unlucky Days.
- Aphorism #140 Find the Good in a Thing at once.
- Aphorism #141 Do not listen to Yourself.
- Aphorism #142 Never from Obstinacy take the Wrong Side because your Opponent has ant
- Aphorism #143 Never become Paradoxical in order to avoid the Trite.
- Aphorism #144 Begin with Another's to end with your Own.
- Aphorism #145 Do not show your wounded Finger,
- Aphorism #146 Look into the Interior of Things.
- Aphorism #147 Do not be Inaccessible.
- Aphorism #148 Have the Art of Conversation.
- Aphorism #149 Know how to put off Ills on Others.
- Aphorism #150 Know to get your Price for Things.
- Aphorism #151 Think beforehand.
- Aphorism #152 Never have a Companion who casts you in the Shade.
- Aphorism #153 Beware of entering where there is a great Gap to be filled.
- Aphorism #154 Do not Believe, or Like, lightly.
- Aphorism #155 The Art of getting into a Passion.
- Aphorism #156 Select your Friends.
- Aphorism #157 Do not make Mistakes about Character.
- Aphorism #158 Make use of your Friends.
- Aphorism #159 Put up with Fools.
- Aphorism #160 Be careful in Speaking.
- Aphorism #161 Know your pet Faults.
- Aphorism #161 Know your pet Faults.
- Aphorism #162 How to triumph over Rivals and Detractors.
- Aphorism #163 Never, from Sympathy with the Unfortunate, involve Yourself in his Fat
- Aphorism #164 Throw Straws in the Air,
- Aphorism #165 Wage War Honourably.
- Aphorism #166 Distinguish the Man of Words from the Man of Deeds.
- Aphorism #167 Know how to take your own Part.
- Aphorism #168 Do not indulge in the Eccentricities of Folly.
- Aphorism #169 Be more careful not to Miss once than to Hit a hundred times.
- Aphorism #170 In all Things keep Something in Reserve.
- Aphorism #171 Waste not Influence.
- Aphorism #172 Never contend with a Man who has nothing to Lose;
- Aphorism #173 Do not be Glass in Intercourse, still less in Friendship.
- Aphorism #174 Do not live in a Hurry.
- Aphorism #175 A Solid Man.
- Aphorism #176 Have Knowledge, or know those that have Knowledge.
- Aphorism #181 The Truth, but not the whole Truth.
- Aphorism #182 A Grain of Boldness in Everything.
- Aphorism #203 Know the great Men of your Age.
- Aphorism #206 Know that there are vulgar Natures everywhere,
- Aphorism #207 Be Moderate.
- Aphorism #208 Do not die of the Fools' Disease.
- Aphorism #209 Keep Yourself free from common Follies.
- Aphorism #210 Know how to play the Card of Truth.
- Aphorism #211 In Heaven all is bliss:
- Aphorism #212 Keep to Yourself the final Touches of your Art.
- Aphorism #213 Know how to Contradict.
- Aphorism #214 Do not turn one Blunder into two.
- Aphorism #215 Watch him that acts on Second Thoughts.
- Aphorism #216 Be Expressive.
- Aphorism #217 Neither Love nor Hate, for ever
- Aphorism #218 Never act from Obstinacy but from Knowledge.
- Aphorism #219 Do not pass for a Hypocrite,
- Aphorism #220 If you cannot clothe Yourself in Lionskin use Foxpelt.
- Aphorism #221 Do not seize Occasions to embarrass Yourself or Others.
- Aphorism #222 Reserve is proof of Prudence.
- Aphorism #223 Be not Eccentric,
- Aphorism #224 Never take Things against the Grain,
- Aphorism #225 Know your chief Fault.