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

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.

What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right.

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

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

Cultivate those who can teach you.