Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
Nothing is more useful than silence.
Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.
Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.