Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
Learn how to regulate one's own house well.
The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.
What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.
Do not make too much haste on one's road.
As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.