My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
Drink poison rather than worry.
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.