The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

Cultivate those who can teach you.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.