If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.

Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.