In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve..

Never travel by sea when you can go by land..

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 ….

Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private m….

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new..

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 w….

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man..

Speak briefly and to the point..

I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid..