LIFE IS LESS FORBIDDING WITH SOMEONE AT YOUR SIDE

          There is gratification in sharing joyful events and an advantage
to partnership.  More important is to discover someone to help shoulder
your misfortunes.  The hour of danger, the shadow of distress, will seem
less forbidding with someone at your side.  Some wish to carry off all
the applause, but end by carrying off all the sounds of disapproval
instead.  In such circumstances have a confidante or partner at hand to make
excuses for you, or at least to aid you in bearing the humiliation, for neither
fate nor the crowd readily attacks two!  This explains why the intelligent
physician, having missed the cure, does not miss calling another, who
under the name of consultant helps him carry the coffin.  Divide with another
your burdens and your sorrows.  For misfortune, always difficult, is doubly
unbearable to him who stands alone.

DO NOT ACT IN THE HEAT OF PASSION

                              

             DO NOT ACT IN THE HEAT OF PASSION

     The heart and the head are often at odds, do nothing in passion
 or everything goes wrong. He cannot work for himself who is not
 in command of himself, and passion invariably overrides reason.

 When embarking on something of importance, collaborate with
 one who is hardheaded and less impassioned.

They who judge from a distance always see more, as does the
audience viewing a play, for those in the play are ruled by excitement.

As quickly as you discover your temper beginning to stir, engage in

hasty retreat, for the blood has rushed into your head and emotion

has replaced the ability to think logically and clearly.
A lifetime of damage can begin in one brief moment.

FEW ARE FRIENDS OF WHO YOU  ARE: MOST ARE FRIENDS OF WHAT YOU ARE

There are friendships that are legitimate and others that are lightweight and matter little.  The former enrich your accomplishments, the latter give only fleeting pleasure. In our world today, where ambition abounds, few are friends of who you are; most are friends of what you have accomplished.  The best friends are those you have tested by time. They are friends chosen not only by desire, but by judgment, rather than those who enter your company through chance and intrusion.  Though choosing is exercised in its execution.  To find pleasure in a man does not prove him a friend, for the enjoyment may spring more from the high value you set upon his company than from his capacity.