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.

Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant

Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see;For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

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

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.

Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.