“There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.”
“To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.”
“It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.”
“At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.”