All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
No just person ever became quickly rich.
He who labors diligently need never despair.
In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."
The character of a man is known from his conversations.