The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

False words do not bring forth fruit.

Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.