It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

The expression of truth is simplicity.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.

It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.