I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
Do not expect good from another's death.
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.