Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.
Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.