We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.