When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?
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.
To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.
However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant
The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.
A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.