When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
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.
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it