If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.
Learn how to regulate one's own house well.
Do nothing immoderate.
Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.
What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.