Beauty and folly are generally companions.

Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.

When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.

There is no desert like being friendless.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

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.

Success rarely brings satisfaction.