Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

Machination is worth more than force.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.