Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.