Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
You are, when all is done-just what you are.
Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.