By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Know or listen to those who know.
Well done is better than well said.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Never complain and never explain.
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.