Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the worldโฆ Focus on your main duty
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.
It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason