In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

There is no life without friendship

A friend is, as it were, a second self.