In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren’t right for ourselves.
Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
Speak briefly and to the point.
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
Do not expect good from another’s death.
Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.