The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

While we wait for life, life passes

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.