The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.

To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.

The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.

Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.