Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

We start to create enduring happiness when we cease to complain about anything and try to find the remedies for everything.

No matter how difficult things may seem, all things are possible.

We can only teach what we have learned

Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted.

Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off their Bush/Quale buttons.

Tears are the messengers of true love.

Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.

The thing about wounded people is wounded people are scared that those wounds are going to end up killing them. They pretend like they're not there, or they ignore them.

Ninety percent of the success of any product or service is its promotion and marketing.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.