When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Custom is almost a second nature.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.