When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.

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

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

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

That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be.

When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.