The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.