Envy Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. - Horace
Error Right One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. - Horace
Eye Years Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. - Horace
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. - Maimonides
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. - Francis Bacon
While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it. - Maimonides