What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.