Whatever you want to teach, be brief.
Don't carry logs into the forest.
Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.