Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.

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.

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

Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.

To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.