Contentment is better than divinations or visions.

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.