It is better to pardon someone who is dying of fear than someone who kills out of fear: because in the former, nature acts without fault; while in the latter, with wrongdoing and fault, the timid and base intellect is at work.
Words are like coins, where one is worth many, but many are not worth one.
The spirit that thinks about what it can fear, begins to fear what it can think.
That man who loses honor for the business, loses both the business and the honor.
Pride is the architect of ruin; it places the foundations on high and the tiles on the foundations.
Everyone who seems stupid, is, and also half of those who don't seem so are.