Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
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.