We live by information, not by sight.

Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.

There is no need to show your ability before everyone.

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.

What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right.

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.

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.