By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
Nothing is more useful than silence.
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
Why should he who is scared be careful?