Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rath...

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Be careful to leave your sons ...