The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.
No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.
Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.