To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.
No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.