The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

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.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.