If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.

To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.

Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband.

Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.

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