The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.

God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.

Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.

A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.

To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.