The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.
Restrain thy mind, and let mildness ever attend thy tongue.
When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.
Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself.
One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.
Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock . Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue.