Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

Reason speaks and feeling bites

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good