No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.
The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.