As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.

The belly has no ears.

Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.

Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

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

Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.