Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to do it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.
Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.
Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.