“Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.”

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant.

When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.

O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.

The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.