“Fire is next akin to smoke.”

Never speak ill of an absent friend.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.

The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Laws are subordinate to custom.

That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.

He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.

You drown him by your talk.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.

Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.

Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

Let us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing

I want to touch people’s lives, and bring them along with me.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.