Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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.