Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
Lighter is the wound foreseen.
After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.