The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves. It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.