If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.
Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
What will the world be quite overturned when you die?
Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).