A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby - take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone.

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby - take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone.

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.

Independence is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.