Praise thyself never.

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.