I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
Modesty should accompany youth.
He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.
He who dies for virtue does not perish.
The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.