My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

Drink poison rather than worry.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.