When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Never find fault with the absent.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
We are wiser than we know.
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Habit is the nursery of errors.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
When you doubt, abstain.
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you’re in.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
To advise is not to compel.
Wisdom begins at the end.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
