Learn how to regulate one's own house well.
If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.
When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.
Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.
What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.