As soon as you awake, in order Lay the actions to be done the coming day.
He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods.
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
Let exercise alternate with rest.
Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.
Above all things, reverence yourself.
Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?
Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.
It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.
Without Justice, no realm may prosper.
The wind is blowing. Adore the wind.
Time is the soul of this world.
Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.
Number rules the universe.
A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow.
Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.
Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.
Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it by the One who in our hearts engraved The sacred Tetrad , symbol immense and pure, Source of Nature and model of the Gods.
Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained.
If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to devour our guests, and barbarously renew Cyclopean feasts? While Earth not only can your needs supply, but, lavish of her store, provides for luxury; a guiltless feast administers with ease, and without blood is prodigal to please.
The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth.
Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.
As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.
Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.
We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.
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