To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.
Anger is brief madness
Words challenge eternity.
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.
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.