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.

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

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

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

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.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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