A sage has one advantage; he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.