There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.