“There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.”

“The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.”

“A mans mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.”

“The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.”

“Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.”

“The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.”

“If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself”

“Wealth mostly ignored the real reality.”

“...I learned the lesson that, even after the revolution, cool, handsome and confident is always going to beat weird-looking and needy.”