Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.

You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.