Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern a wife and family, so, if thou stay long, thou shalt hardly see the education of thy children, who, being left to strangers, are in effect lost; and better were it to be unborn than ill-bred; for thereby thy posterity shall either perish, or remain a shame to thy name.

Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.