Know or listen to those who know.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
I can, therefore I am.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Well done is better than well said.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.