Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.