Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others".