III
It is a shame that one who sweetens his drink with the gifts of the bee,
should embitter God's gift Reason with vice.
IV
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need
of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they
blind.
V
Keep neither a blunt knife nor an ill-disciplined looseness of tongue.
VI
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from
others twice as much as we speak.
VII
Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself
judged in the tribunal of Justice.
VIII
If is shameful for a Judge to be judged by others.
IX
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is
longer but of less account!
X
Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice. . . . None is a slave
whose acts are free.
XI
Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.
XII
Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least
delightful.
XIII
The anger of an ape--the threat of a flatterer:--these deserve equal
regard.
XIV
Chastise thy passions that they avenge not themselves upon thee.
XV
No man is free who is not master of himself.
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