Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.
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.
Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.