“Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.”
“Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.”
“What is conceived well is expressed clearly.”
“A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.”
“He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.”
“No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.”
“The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.”
“Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.”
“However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.”
“Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.”
“If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.”
“Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.”