Golden Sayings   

II

The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever-flowing
source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught; sweet, rich,
and generous of its store; that injures not, neither destroys.

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