It is good to be honest when you speak, and winged, But it is a wonder to be brief in what you have to say.
Going through the world and remaining incomplete is the same as leaving the bathroom without washing.
The impudence of the tongue punishes you, giving birth to hundreds of misfortunes, misfortunes and troubles.
With words, you can thwart death, With words, you can also raise the dead.
Among people, the best is the one who brings the most benefit to the people.
Is he alive who does not know holy friendship? What distinguishes it from an empty shell?
Man loses everything with the passage of years: youth, beauty, health, the spurs of ambition. Only stupidity never leaves people.
Cruelty is the fruit of an evil mind and often of a cowardly soul.
When reason is carried away by impetuousness or anger, and blind rage offends a friend by deed or word, neither tears nor sighs will then be able to repair the wrong.
He who loves loses his mind, He who submits to his beloved's dreams, He who allows himself to be tempted by the wanderings of magic, He who imagines that the stars in the sky Can be touched, and who laughs With sophistry; and the one who paints the canvases. I should also say here that the poets are the most useless.
Faith is necessary for the education of rude peoples, who must be led, and evidence - for those who contemplate the truth are able to lead both themselves and others.
The will that tends to knowledge is never satisfied with a ready-made.
To speak in terms of truth where it is not necessary, is to wish that the common people and stupidity, from whom practical activity is required, should be endowed with a special understanding: it is the same as wishing that the hand had eyes, though it, by nature, is not made to be seen, but to do and to be helpful to seeing.
Man's life on earth is no different from the state of war! He must overcome the nothingness of the drones, quell the insolence, anticipate the blows of the enemies.
Art complements the defects of nature.
The truth cannot be contradicted.
The drop pierces the stone not by force, but by the tenacity of the drop.
Better a dignified and heroic death than a dishonorable and wretched triumph.
Just as it is not possible to bathe twice in the same water of a river, and as they say, not even once, so it is not possible to name twice one and the same thing in development: in time what is named, already becomes something else.
Whoever wants to philosophize must first doubt everything.
Usually those who don't understand enough think they know more, and those who are completely brainless think they know everything.
The peculiarity of a living mind is that it needs to see and hear only a little, so that it can then judge at length and understand much.
Jealousy shakes and poisons all that is beautiful and good in love.
The death that happens in one age is the source of life for all ages to come.
Do not feed the lazy man, but let him talk, and in the art of slander you will not find his equal. She is always ready to find a justification for her own nothingness.
In nature, everything is thought out and composed with wisdom, each must mind his own business, and in this wisdom lies the supreme justice of life.
Among fools there is a certain group, called the hypocrites, who learn without ceasing how to deceive themselves and others, but others more than themselves, and who, in reality, deceive themselves more than others .
You do harm if you praise, but even more harm you do if you blame something you are not good at.
Anyone who wants to have faithful friends must be kind and patient, attentive to the needs of others. Honor and respect are not obtained by force, but by generosity and the ability to share the last Sunday with the one in need.
Any life well lived is a long life.