The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.

It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.