A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.