If you want to be loved, love.
The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.