Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.