What you can't enforce, do not command.
Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship.
The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.
If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.
To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.