Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.