Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.

Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.

A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

Do not expect good from another’s death.

Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.

Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband’s private mill.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.