Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.