A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.