I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.
In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
Let each man have according to his deserts.
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.