The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]
Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.