Learn advidly. Question it repeatedly. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.

If the will be set on virtue, there will be no practice of wickedness.

Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous and lo Virtue is at hand.

Conduct thyself always with the same prudence as though thou went observed by ten eyes and pointed at by ten fingers.

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

What is the good of being ready with the tongue? They who encounter men with smartnesses of speech for the most part procure themselves hatred. I know not whether he be truly virtuous, but why should he show readiness of the tongue?

There is never a case when the root is in order and yet the branches are in order.