Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.
Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.
Do not kick against the pricks.
From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.