If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.