All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

Even a single hair casts its shadow.

Apathy borders upon folly.