Cultivate those who can teach you.
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it.
Admiration is the basis of ignorance.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.