Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.
Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.
Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.
He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.