When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.
Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
Silence is an answer to a wise man.
I see the cure is not worth the pain.
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.