Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.
Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.
He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.