To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux.

ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuvent obéir aux amis qui les conseillent bien.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn