If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Your wealth is where your friends are
What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things - either to lose your loan or lose your friend.
Good things soon find a purchaser.
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.