A man is not learned because he talks too much.

Though all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he no more comprehends the truth than a spoon tastes the flavour of the soup.

They blame him who talks too much; they blame him who is silent; and they also blame him who speaks little; there is not, in fact, a person who is not blamed. Yet there never was, there will never be, nor is there now, a man who is always blamed or a man who is always praised.

As the fletcher makes straight his arrow, a wise man makes straight his trembling and unsteady thought, which is difficult to guard, difficult to hold back.

Both the young and the old, both the wise and the foolish, end up in death.

Let no one forget his own duty for the sake of another's, however great; let a man, after he has discerned his own duty, be always attentive to his duty.

A day's life of a virtuous man is better than a hundred years' life of the fool.

Cling to nothing for its loss is pain.