Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.
Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it