One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
Wit does not take the place of knowledge.
It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.