If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.
Do not make too much haste on one's road.
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.
What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.
A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.