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

Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.

Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy

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

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.