What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.
Learn how to regulate one's own house well.
Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
Do not make too much haste on one's road.
Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.
When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.