Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.