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.

Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

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

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