Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.

There is no avoidance in delay.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.