Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.

Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.

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

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.