Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

Invisible harmony is better than visible.

We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.

It is in changing that things find purpose.

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.

A man's character is his fate.