Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Men practice war; beasts do not.

The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.