The desire for change is a sign of safety.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal