“You should make great things, not promising great things.”

“Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!”

“It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.”

“Friends share all things.”

“Above all things, respect yourself.”

“In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.”

“We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.”