If you would be a reader read if a writer write.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

All philosophy in two words - sustain and abstain.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.