Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

• Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
• The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
• Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
• The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
• Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
• All art is but imitation of nature.
• To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
• If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
• Genius always gives its best at first prudence, at last.
• The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.