The facts, although interesting, are usually irrelevant. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. You can't have the real highs in life, without the deep lows. If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. No matter how much you do, you never do enough. Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now. He who hesitates is probably right.