Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
Brighter than Parian marble.
A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.