Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: "I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next, every two, then every three days!" and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.