If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.

Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.

Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.

So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.