Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others.

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.

There is no desert like being friendless.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.