A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

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

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God.

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