It requires a long time to know anyone.

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.

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.

Delay always heeds danger.