Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Who will guard the guards themselves?

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.