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

The evil that we know is best.

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.

You will stir up the hornets.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

I am myself my own commander.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.

He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.

Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

So he asked the Iranians to come in and help.

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

But I don’t believe it comes at the expense of the Middle East.