If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope

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

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

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