Friends, though absent, are still present.
My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?
Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.