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

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.

Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

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

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.