If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.