I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.