The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.