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.

A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.

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

O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.

Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.