In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.
Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done.
Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.
Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power.