You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.