Above all have respect for yourself.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done.
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.