In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
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.
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.