Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.
He can afford to be a fool.