For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.