Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.