By worrying as little as possible about fame.

Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."

Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.

The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.