No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.

Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.

Learning is a livelihood.

That one is learned who has reduced his learning to practice.

Idleness, women, disorder, a foolish partiality for one's own native place, discontent and timidity are six obstructions to greatness.