None can be so true to your secret as yourself.

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.

If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.

Whenever thy hand can reach it, tear out the foe's brain, for such an opportunity washes anger from the mind.

A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.

A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane

Be sure, either that thou art stronger than thine enemy, or that thou hast a swifter pair of heels.