When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.