The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.

Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.