Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.
Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
Only the educated are free.
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.