Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.
To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant