Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth?

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

No grief reaches the dead.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.