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.

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Speak briefly and to the point.

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

I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.