The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state
What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.