If they are just, they are better than clever.
Love is like ice in the hands of children.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.