A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
He who spares the bad injures the good.
They do injury to the good who spares the bad.
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.