| We cannot control the evil tongues of others but a good life enables us to disregard them. |
| Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity. |
| Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth. |
| Lighter is the wound foreseen. |
| Patience is the greatest of all virtues. |
| I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. |
| From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs. |
| After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. |
| Grasp the subject, the words will follow. |
| I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one. |
| An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking. |
| Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. |
| Even though work stops, expenses run on. |
