Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

It is easy to fly into a passion-anybody can do that-but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way-that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants.

Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.