It is easy to rule over the good.
If you want to do something, do it!
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
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.
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.