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.

O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.

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

Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.