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.

The king cannot fall unworthily if he falls to the sword of the ace.

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

Gently to hear, kindly to judge.

Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.