Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

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

When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.