We learn not in the school, but in life.
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
Luck never made a man wise.
If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.