Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.
Happy the man who can count his sufferings.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.
There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.
The end doesn't justify the means.