Anger is short-lived madness.
Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe
One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.
Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?
Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.