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Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Few men have been admired by their own households.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.