"You should look into a mirror: if you look fine, do fine things; if you look ugly, correct by nobility the defect of …"

"Great riches come to many men by chance."

"Choose the course which you adopt with deliberation; but when you have adopted it, then persevere in it with firmness."

"Do not speak fast, for that shows folly."

"Speak of the Gods as they are."

"Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches."

"Accept of things, having procured them by persuasion, not by force."

"Whatever good fortune befalls you, attribute it to the gods."

"Cherish wisdom as a means of travelling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession."

"Seek to please all the citizens, even though Your house may be in an ungracious city. For such a course will favour w…"