When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.

For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.

Either is both, and Both is neither.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.