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.
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.
Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.
As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.