Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.
Friendship multiplies blessings and...soothes the soul.
The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.
Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.
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.