就当人道不存在 219
252. 别完全为自己而活,也别完全为他人而活 219
253. 不要解释太多 221
254. 不要忽视小恶 221
255. 行善可以一次一点儿,但要经常 223
256. 有备方无患 223
257. 勿轻易断交 225
258. 找人帮着分担不幸 225
259. 预见侮辱,并将其转化为有利条件 227
260. 你不能完全属于别人,也没有任何人完全属于你 227
261. 不要执迷不悟 227
262. 懂得忘记 229
263. 不应一味地希望占有好东西 229
264. 任何时候都不能大意 229
265. 让部下遭遇困境 231
266. 行善过犹不及 231
267. 温软的话语,优雅的举止 231
268. 蠢人最后做的事,聪明人先做 233
269. 利用你给人的新鲜感 233
270. 不要独自谴责流行时尚 235
第十卷
271. 如果你知之不多,就走最安全的路线 239
272. 出售东西要注意礼节 239
273. 了解你所交往的人的性格 239
274. 要有迷人的风度 241
275. 随波逐流,但应得体 241
276. 知道如何完善你的品性 243
277. 展示自己 243
278. 不要故意抢眼 245
279. 不要答复驳斥你的人 245
280. 成为值得信赖的人 245
281. 赢得智者的喜爱 247
282. 以不露面来赢得敬重 247
283. 拥有善于发现的天赋 249
284. 不多管闲事 249
285. 勿自毁于别人的厄运 249
286. 不要对所有人都负责 251
287. 冲动之时绝不行动 251
288. 顺应时势 251
289. 要贬低一个人,莫过于表明他与常人无异 253
290. 赢得人们的喜爱和尊敬是莫大的荣幸 253
291. 懂得测度他人 253
292. 让你的素质优于你的工作要求 255
293. 做人应成熟 255
294. 表达观点要适度 255
295. 奏效前不邀功 257
296. 高贵的禀赋 257
297. 一言一行,都要想到有人在监视着你 257
298. 可造就伟人的三大要素 259
299. 让人常有饥饿感 259
300. 一句话,做一位圣徒 261
1. Everything is at its acme 002
2. Character and intellect 002
3. Keep matters for a time in suspense 002
4. Knowledge and courage 004
5. Create a feeling of dependence 004
6. A man at his highest point 004
7. Avoid victories over superiors 006
8. To be without passions 006
9. Avoid the faults of your nation 006
10. Fortune and fame 008
11. Cultivate those who can teach you 008
12. Nature and art:material and workmanship 010
13. Act sometimes on second thoughts, sometimes on first impulse
010
14. The thing itself and the way it is done 012
15. Keep ministering spirits 012
16. Knowledge and good intentions 012
17. Vary the mode of action 014
18. Application and ability 014
19. Arouse no exaggerated expectations on entering 014
20. A man of the age 016
21. The art of being lucky 016
22. A man of knowledge to the point 018
23. Be spotless 018
24. Keep the imagination under control 018
25. Know how to take a hint 020
26. Find out each man’s thumbscrew 020
27. Prize intensity more than extent 020
28. Common in nothing 022
29. A man of rectitude 022
30. Have naught to do with occupations of ill-repute 024
31. Select the lucky and avoid the unlucky 028
32. Have the reputation of being gracious 028
33. Know how to withdraw 028
34. Know your strongest point 030
35. Think over things, most over the most important 030
36. In acting or refraining, weigh your luck 030
37. Keep a store of sarcasms,and know how to use them 032
38. Leave your luck while winning 032
39. Recognize when things are ripe, and then enjoy them 034
40. Gain the goodwill of people 034
41. Never exaggerate 034
42. Born to command 036
43. Think with the few and speak with the many 036
44. Sympathy with great minds 038
45. Use , but do not abuse,cunning 038
46. Master your antipathies 038
47. Avoid “affairs of honour” 040
48. So much depends on being a person of depth 040
49. Observation and judgment 040
50. Never lose self-respect 042
51. Know how to choose well 042
52. Never be put out 042
53. Be diligent and intelligent 044
54. Know how to show your teeth 044
55. Wait 046
56. Have presence of mind 046
57. Be slow and sure 046
58. Adapt yourself to your company 048
59. Finish off well 048
60. A sound judgment 048
61. To excel in what is excellent 052
62. Use good instruments 052
63. To be the first of the kind is an excellence 052
64. Avoid worry 054
65. Elevated taste 054
66. See that things end well 056
67. Choose an occupation that wins distinction 056
68. It is better to help with intelligence than with memory
056
69. Do not give way to every common impulse 058
70. Know how to refuse 058
71. Do not vacillate 060
72. Be resolute 060
73. Utilize slips 062
74. Do not be unsociable 062
75. Choose a heroic ideal 062
76. Do not always be jesting 064
77. Be all things to all men 064
78. The art of undertaking things 066
79. A genial disposition 066
80. Take care to get information 066
81. Renew your brilliance 068
82. Drain nothing to the dregs,neither good nor ill 068
83. Allow yourself some venial fault 068
84. Make use of your enemies 070
85. Do not be a wild card 070
86. Prevent scandal 072
87. Culture and elegance 072
88. Let your behaviour be fine and noble 072
89. Know yourself 074
90.The secret of long life 074
91. Never set to work at anything if you have any doubts of its
prudence 078
92. Transcendent wisdom 078
93. Versatility 078
94. Keep the extent of your abilities unknown 080
95. Keep expectation alive 080
96. The highest discretion 080
97. Obtain and preserve a reputation 080
98. Write your intentions in cypher 082
99. Reality and appearance 082
100. Be a man without illusions, a wise christian, a philosophic
courtier 082
101. One half of the world laughs at the other, and fools are they
all 084
102. Be able to stomach big slices of luck 084
103. Let each keep up his dignity 086
104. Know the demands of different occupations 086
105. Don’t be a bore 086
106. Do not parade your position 088
107. Show no self-satisfaction 088
108. The path to greatness is along with others 090
109. Be not censorious 090
110. Do not wait till you are a sinking sun 092
111. Have friends 092
112. Gain good-will 092
113. In prosperity prepare for adversity 094
114. Never compete 094
115. Get used to the failings of your familiars 096
116. Only act with honourable men 096
117. Never talk about yourself 096
118. Acquire the reputation of courtesy 098
119. Avoid becoming disliked 098
120. Live practically 098
121. Do not make a business of what is no business 104
122. Distinction in speech and action 104
123. Avoid affectation 104
124. Get yourself missed 106
125. Do not be a black list 106
126. Folly consists not in committing folly, but in not hiding it
when committed 108
127. Grace in everything 108
128. Highmindedness 108
129. Never complain 110
130. Do and be seen doing 110
131. Nobility of feeling 110
132. Revise your judgments 112
133. Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone
112
134. Double your resources 114
135. Do not nourish the spirit of contradiction 114
136. Post yourself in the centre of things 114
137. The sage should be self-sufficing 116
138. The art of letting things alone 116
139. Recognize unlucky days 118
140. Find the good in a thing at once 118
141. Do not listen to yourself 120
142. Never from obstinacy take the wrong side because your opponent
has anticipated you in taking the right one 120
143. Never become paradoxical in order to avoid the trite 122
144. Begin with another’s to end with your own 122
145. Do not show your wounded finger 122
146. Look into the interior of things 124
147. Do not be inaccessible 124
148. Have the art of conversation 126
149. Know how to put off ills on others 126
150. Know how to get your price for things 126
151. Think beforehand 132
152. Never have a companion who casts you in the shade 132
153. Beware of entering where there is a great gap to be filled
134
154. Do not believe, or 1ike, lightly 134
155. The art of mastering your passions 134
156. Select your friends 136
157. Do not make mistakes about character 136
158. Make use of your friends 138
159. Put up with fools 138
160. Be careful in speaking 140
161. Know your pet faults 140
162. How to triumph over rivals and detractors 140
163. Never, from sympathy with the unfortunate, involve yourself in
his fate 142
164. Throw straws in the air 142
165. Wage war honourably 144
166. Distinguish the man of words from the man of deeds 144
167. Know how to take your own part 144
168. Do not indulge in the eccentricities of folly 146
169. Be more careful not to miss once than to hit a hundred times
146
170. In all things keep something in reserve 148
171. Do not waste influence 148
172. Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose 148
173. Do not be glass in intercourse, still less in friendship
150
174. Do not live in a hurry 150
175. A solid man 152
176. Have knowledge, or know those that have knowledge 152
177. Avoid familiarities in intercourse 154
178. Trust your heart 154
179. Reticence is the seal of capacity 154
180. Never be guided by what your enemy has done 156
181. The truth, but not the whole truth 160
182. A grain of boldness in everything 160
183. Do not hold your views too firmly 160
184. Do not be ceremonious 162
185. Never stake your credit on a single cast 162
186. Recognize faults, however high placed 164
187. Do pleasant things yourself, unpleasant things through others
164
188. Be the bearer of praise 164
189. Utilize another’s wants 166
190. Find consolation in all things 166
191. Do not take payment in politeness 168
192. Peaceful life, a long life 168
193. Watch him that begins with another’s to end with his own
168
194. Have reasonable views of yourself and of your affairs
170
195. Know how to appreciate 170
196. Know your ruling star 170
197. Do not carry fools on your back 172
198. Know how to transplant yourself 172
199. To find a proper place by merit, not by presumption 174
200. Leave something to wish for 174
201. They are all fools who seem so besides half the rest 176
202. Words and deeds make the perfect man 176
203. Know the great men of your age 176
204. Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as
if they were easy 178
205. Know how to play the card of contempt 178
206. Know that there are vulgar people everywhere 180
207. Be moderate 180
208. Do not die of the fools’ disease 180
209. Keep yourself free from common follies 182
210. Know how to play the card of truth 182
211. In heaven all is bliss; in hell all misery 186
212. Keep to yourself the final touches of your art 186
213. Know how to contradict 186
214. Do not turn one blunder into two 188
215. Watch him that acts on second thoughts 188
216. Be expressive 190
217. Neither love nor hate forever 190
218. Never act from obstinacy but from knowledge 190
219. Do not pass for a hypocrite 192
220. If you cannot clothe yourself in lionskin use foxpelt
192
221. Do not seize occasions to embarrass yourself or others
194
222. Reserve is proof of prudence 194
223. Be not eccentric, neither from affectation nor carelessness
194
224. Never take things against the grain, no matter how they come
196
225. Know your chief fault 196
226. Take care to be obliging 196
227. Do not be the slave of first impressions 198
228. Do not be a scandal-monger 198
229. Plan out your life wisely 200
230. Open your eyes betimes 200
231. Never let things be seen half-finished 200
232. Have a touch of business sense 202
233. Let not the proffered morsel be distasteful; otherwise it
gives more discomfort than pleasure 202
234. Never trust your honour to another, unless you have his in
pledge 204
235. Know how to ask 204
236. Make an obligation beforehand of what would have to be a
reward afterwards 206
237. Never share the secrets of your superiors 206
238. Know what is wanting in yourself 208
239. Do not be captious 208
240. Make use of folly 208
241. Put up with raillery, but do not practise it 212
242. Push advantages 212
243. Do not be too much of a dove 212
244. Create a feeling of obligation 214
245. Original and out-of-the-way views are signs of superior
ability 214
246. Never offer satisfaction unless it is demanded 216
247. Know a little more, live a little less 216
248. Do not go with the last speaker 216
249. Never begin life with what should end it 218
250. When to change the conversation 218
251. Use human means as if there were no divine ones, and divine as
if there were no human ones 218
252. Neither belong entirely to yourself nor entirely to others
218
253. Do not explain overmuch 220
254. Never despise an evil, however small 220
255. Do good a little at a time,but often 222
256. Go armed, always 222
257. Never let matters come to a rupture 224
258. Find out someone to share your troubles 224
259. Anticipate injuries and turn them into favours 226
260. We belong to none and none to us,entirely 226
261. Do not follow up a folly 226
262. Be able to forget 228
263. Many things of taste one should not possess oneself 228
264. Have no careless days 228
265. Set those under you difficult task 230
266. Do not become bad from sheer goodness 230
267. Silken words, sugared manners 230
268. The wise does at once what the fool does at last 232
269. Make use of the novelty of your position 232
270. Do not condemn alone that which pleases all 234
271. In every occupation if you know little stick to the safest
path 238
272. Sell things by the tariff of courtesy 238
273. Comprehend their dispositions with whom you deal 238
274. Be attractive 240
275. Join in the game as far as decency permits 240
276. Know how to renew your character 242
277. Display yourself 242
278. Avoid notoriety in all things 244
279. Do not contradict the contradictor 244
280. Be trustworthy 244
281. Find favour with men of good sense 246
282. Make use of absence to make yourself more esteemed or valued
246
283. Have the gift of discovery 248
284. Do not be importunate 248
285. Never die of another’s ill-luck 248
286. Do not become responsible for all or for everyone 250
287. Never act in a passion 250
288. Live for the moment 250
289. Nothing depreciates a man more than to show he is a man like
other men 252
290. It is a piece of good fortune to combine men’s love and
respect 252
291. Know how to test people 252
292. Let your personal qualities surpass those of your office
254
293. Maturity 254
294. Be moderate in your views 254
295. Do not affect what you have not effected 256
296. Noble qualities 256
297. Always act as if your acts were seen 256
298. Three things go to a prodigy 258
299. Leave off hungry 258
300. In one word, be a saint 260
就当人道不存在 219
252. 别完全为自己而活,也别完全为他人而活 219
253. 不要解释太多 221
254. 不要忽视小恶 221
255. 行善可以一次一点儿,但要经常 223
256. 有备方无患 223
257. 勿轻易断交 225
258. 找人帮着分担不幸 225
259. 预见侮辱,并将其转化为有利条件 227
260. 你不能完全属于别人,也没有任何人完全属于你 227
261. 不要执迷不悟 227
262. 懂得忘记 229
263. 不应一味地希望占有好东西 229
264. 任何时候都不能大意 229
265. 让部下遭遇困境 231
266. 行善过犹不及 231
267. 温软的话语,优雅的举止 231
268. 蠢人最后做的事,聪明人先做 233
269. 利用你给人的新鲜感 233
270. 不要独自谴责流行时尚 235
第十卷
271. 如果你知之不多,就走最安全的路线 239
272. 出售东西要注意礼节 239
273. 了解你所交往的人的性格 239
274. 要有迷人的风度 241
275. 随波逐流,但应得体 241
276. 知道如何完善你的品性 243
277. 展示自己 243
278. 不要故意抢眼 245
279. 不要答复驳斥你的人 245
280. 成为值得信赖的人 245
281. 赢得智者的喜爱 247
282. 以不露面来赢得敬重 247
283. 拥有善于发现的天赋 249
284. 不多管闲事 249
285. 勿自毁于别人的厄运 249
286. 不要对所有人都负责 251
287. 冲动之时绝不行动 251
288. 顺应时势 251
289. 要贬低一个人,莫过于表明他与常人无异 253
290. 赢得人们的喜爱和尊敬是莫大的荣幸 253
291. 懂得测度他人 253
292. 让你的素质优于你的工作要求 255
293. 做人应成熟 255
294. 表达观点要适度 255
295. 奏效前不邀功 257
296. 高贵的禀赋 257
297. 一言一行,都要想到有人在监视着你 257
298. 可造就伟人的三大要素 259
299. 让人常有饥饿感 259
300. 一句话,做一位圣徒 261
1. Everything is at its acme 002
2. Character and intellect 002
3. Keep matters for a time in suspense 002
4. Knowledge and courage 004
5. Create a feeling of dependence 004
6. A man at his highest point 004
7. Avoid victories over superiors 006
8. To be without passions 006
9. Avoid the faults of your nation 006
10. Fortune and fame 008
11. Cultivate those who can teach you 008
12. Nature and art:material and workmanship 010
13. Act sometimes on second thoughts, sometimes on first impulse
010
14. The thing itself and the way it is done 012
15. Keep ministering spirits 012
16. Knowledge and good intentions 012
17. Vary the mode of action 014
18. Application and ability 014
19. Arouse no exaggerated expectations on entering 014
20. A man of the age 016
21. The art of being lucky 016
22. A man of knowledge to the point 018
23. Be spotless 018
24. Keep the imagination under control 018
25. Know how to take a hint 020
26. Find out each man’s thumbscrew 020
27. Prize intensity more than extent 020
28. Common in nothing 022
29. A man of rectitude 022
30. Have naught to do with occupations of ill-repute 024
31. Select the lucky and avoid the unlucky 028
32. Have the reputation of being gracious 028
33. Know how to withdraw 028
34. Know your strongest point 030
35. Think over things, most over the most important 030
36. In acting or refraining, weigh your luck 030
37. Keep a store of sarcasms,and know how to use them 032
38. Leave your luck while winning 032
39. Recognize when things are ripe, and then enjoy them 034
40. Gain the goodwill of people 034
41. Never exaggerate 034
42. Born to command 036
43. Think with the few and speak with the many 036
44. Sympathy with great minds 038
45. Use , but do not abuse,cunning 038
46. Master your antipathies 038
47. Avoid “affairs of honour” 040
48. So much depends on being a person of depth 040
49. Observation and judgment 040
50. Never lose self-respect 042
51. Know how to choose well 042
52. Never be put out 042
53. Be diligent and intelligent 044
54. Know how to show your teeth 044
55. Wait 046
56. Have presence of mind 046
57. Be slow and sure 046
58. Adapt yourself to your company 048
59. Finish off well 048
60. A sound judgment 048
61. To excel in what is excellent 052
62. Use good instruments 052
63. To be the first of the kind is an excellence 052
64. Avoid worry 054
65. Elevated taste 054
66. See that things end well 056
67. Choose an occupation that wins distinction 056
68. It is better to help with intelligence than with memory
056
69. Do not give way to every common impulse 058
70. Know how to refuse 058
71. Do not vacillate 060
72. Be resolute 060
73. Utilize slips 062
74. Do not be unsociable 062
75. Choose a heroic ideal 062
76. Do not always be jesting 064
77. Be all things to all men 064
78. The art of undertaking things 066
79. A genial disposition 066
80. Take care to get information 066
81. Renew your brilliance 068
82. Drain nothing to the dregs,neither good nor ill 068
83. Allow yourself some venial fault 068
84. Make use of your enemies 070
85. Do not be a wild card 070
86. Prevent scandal 072
87. Culture and elegance 072
88. Let your behaviour be fine and noble 072
89. Know yourself 074
90.The secret of long life 074
91. Never set to work at anything if you have any doubts of its
prudence 078
92. Transcendent wisdom 078
93. Versatility 078
94. Keep the extent of your abilities unknown 080
95. Keep expectation alive 080
96. The highest discretion 080
97. Obtain and preserve a reputation 080
98. Write your intentions in cypher 082
99. Reality and appearance 082
100. Be a man without illusions, a wise christian, a philosophic
courtier 082
101. One half of the world laughs at the other, and fools are they
all 084
102. Be able to stomach big slices of luck 084
103. Let each keep up his dignity 086
104. Know the demands of different occupations 086
105. Don’t be a bore 086
106. Do not parade your position 088
107. Show no self-satisfaction 088
108. The path to greatness is along with others 090
109. Be not censorious 090
110. Do not wait till you are a sinking sun 092
111. Have friends 092
112. Gain good-will 092
113. In prosperity prepare for adversity 094
114. Never compete 094
115. Get used to the failings of your familiars 096
116. Only act with honourable men 096
117. Never talk about yourself 096
118. Acquire the reputation of courtesy 098
119. Avoid becoming disliked 098
120. Live practically 098
121. Do not make a business of what is no business 104
122. Distinction in speech and action 104
123. Avoid affectation 104
124. Get yourself missed 106
125. Do not be a black list 106
126. Folly consists not in committing folly, but in not hiding it
when committed 108
127. Grace in everything 108
128. Highmindedness 108
129. Never complain 110
130. Do and be seen doing 110
131. Nobility of feeling 110
132. Revise your judgments 112
133. Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone
112
134. Double your resources 114
135. Do not nourish the spirit of contradiction 114
136. Post yourself in the centre of things 114
137. The sage should be self-sufficing 116
138. The art of letting things alone 116
139. Recognize unlucky days 118
140. Find the good in a thing at once 118
141. Do not listen to yourself 120
142. Never from obstinacy take the wrong side because your opponent
has anticipated you in taking the right one 120
143. Never become paradoxical in order to avoid the trite 122
144. Begin with another’s to end with your own 122
145. Do not show your wounded finger 122
146. Look into the interior of things 124
147. Do not be inaccessible 124
148. Have the art of conversation 126
149. Know how to put off ills on others 126
150. Know how to get your price for things 126
151. Think beforehand 132
152. Never have a companion who casts you in the shade 132
153. Beware of entering where there is a great gap to be filled
134
154. Do not believe, or 1ike, lightly 134
155. The art of mastering your passions 134
156. Select your friends 136
157. Do not make mistakes about character 136
158. Make use of your friends 138
159. Put up with fools 138
160. Be careful in speaking 140
161. Know your pet faults 140
162. How to triumph over rivals and detractors 140
163. Never, from sympathy with the unfortunate, involve yourself in
his fate 142
164. Throw straws in the air 142
165. Wage war honourably 144
166. Distinguish the man of words from the man of deeds 144
167. Know how to take your own part 144
168. Do not indulge in the eccentricities of folly 146
169. Be more careful not to miss once than to hit a hundred times
146
170. In all things keep something in reserve 148
171. Do not waste influence 148
172. Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose 148
173. Do not be glass in intercourse, still less in friendship
150
174. Do not live in a hurry 150
175. A solid man 152
176. Have knowledge, or know those that have knowledge 152
177. Avoid familiarities in intercourse 154
178. Trust your heart 154
179. Reticence is the seal of capacity 154
180. Never be guided by what your enemy has done 156
181. The truth, but not the whole truth 160
182. A grain of boldness in everything 160
183. Do not hold your views too firmly 160
184. Do not be ceremonious 162
185. Never stake your credit on a single cast 162
186. Recognize faults, however high placed 164
187. Do pleasant things yourself, unpleasant things through others
164
188. Be the bearer of praise 164
189. Utilize another’s wants 166
190. Find consolation in all things 166
191. Do not take payment in politeness 168
192. Peaceful life, a long life 168
193. Watch him that begins with another’s to end with his own
168
194. Have reasonable views of yourself and of your affairs
170
195. Know how to appreciate 170
196. Know your ruling star 170
197. Do not carry fools on your back 172
198. Know how to transplant yourself 172
199. To find a proper place by merit, not by presumption 174
200. Leave something to wish for 174
201. They are all fools who seem so besides half the rest 176
202. Words and deeds make the perfect man 176
203. Know the great men of your age 176
204. Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as
if they were easy 178
205. Know how to play the card of contempt 178
206. Know that there are vulgar people everywhere 180
207. Be moderate 180
208. Do not die of the fools’ disease 180
209. Keep yourself free from common follies 182
210. Know how to play the card of truth 182
211. In heaven all is bliss; in hell all misery 186
212. Keep to yourself the final touches of your art 186
213. Know how to contradict 186
214. Do not turn one blunder into two 188
215. Watch him that acts on second thoughts 188
216. Be expressive 190
217. Neither love nor hate forever 190
218. Never act from obstinacy but from knowledge 190
219. Do not pass for a hypocrite 192
220. If you cannot clothe yourself in lionskin use foxpelt
192
221. Do not seize occasions to embarrass yourself or others
194
222. Reserve is proof of prudence 194
223. Be not eccentric, neither from affectation nor carelessness
194
224. Never take things against the grain, no matter how they come
196
225. Know your chief fault 196
226. Take care to be obliging 196
227. Do not be the slave of first impressions 198
228. Do not be a scandal-monger 198
229. Plan out your life wisely 200
230. Open your eyes betimes 200
231. Never let things be seen half-finished 200
232. Have a touch of business sense 202
233. Let not the proffered morsel be distasteful; otherwise it
gives more discomfort than pleasure 202
234. Never trust your honour to another, unless you have his in
pledge 204
235. Know how to ask 204
236. Make an obligation beforehand of what would have to be a
reward afterwards 206
237. Never share the secrets of your superiors 206
238. Know what is wanting in yourself 208
239. Do not be captious 208
240. Make use of folly 208
241. Put up with raillery, but do not practise it 212
242. Push advantages 212
243. Do not be too much of a dove 212
244. Create a feeling of obligation 214
245. Original and out-of-the-way views are signs of superior
ability 214
246. Never offer satisfaction unless it is demanded 216
247. Know a little more, live a little less 216
248. Do not go with the last speaker 216
249. Never begin life with what should end it 218
250. When to change the conversation 218
251. Use human means as if there were no divine ones, and divine as
if there were no human ones 218
252. Neither belong entirely to yourself nor entirely to others
218
253. Do not explain overmuch 220
254. Never despise an evil, however small 220
255. Do good a little at a time,but often 222
256. Go armed, always 222
257. Never let matters come to a rupture 224
258. Find out someone to share your troubles 224
259. Anticipate injuries and turn them into favours 226
260. We belong to none and none to us,entirely 226
261. Do not follow up a folly 226
262. Be able to forget 228
263. Many things of taste one should not possess oneself 228
264. Have no careless days 228
265. Set those under you difficult task 230
266. Do not become bad from sheer goodness 230
267. Silken words, sugared manners 230
268. The wise does at once what the fool does at last 232
269. Make use of the novelty of your position 232
270. Do not condemn alone that which pleases all 234
271. In every occupation if you know little stick to the safest
path 238
272. Sell things by the tariff of courtesy 238
273. Comprehend their dispositions with whom you deal 238
274. Be attractive 240
275. Join in the game as far as decency permits 240
276. Know how to renew your character 242
277. Display yourself 242
278. Avoid notoriety in all things 244
279. Do not contradict the contradictor 244
280. Be trustworthy 244
281. Find favour with men of good sense 246
282. Make use of absence to make yourself more esteemed or valued
246
283. Have the gift of discovery 248
284. Do not be importunate 248
285. Never die of another’s ill-luck 248
286. Do not become responsible for all or for everyone 250
287. Never act in a passion 250
288. Live for the moment 250
289. Nothing depreciates a man more than to show he is a man like
other men 252
290. It is a piece of good fortune to combine men’s love and
respect 252
291. Know how to test people 252
292. Let your personal qualities surpass those of your office
254
293. Maturity 254
294. Be moderate in your views 254
295. Do not affect what you have not effected 256
296. Noble qualities 256
297. Always act as if your acts were seen 256
298. Three things go to a prodigy 258
299. Leave off hungry 258
300. In one word, be a saint 260