In giving advice I advise you, be short.
Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.
Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.