101
An adviser ought, in the first place, to have a regard to the delicacy and sense of shame of the person admonished. For they who are beyond blushing are incorrigible.
102
It is better to advise than reproach; for the one is mild and friendly, the other stern and severe; the one corrects the erring, the other only convicts them.
103
Impart to strangers and persons in need according to your ability. For he who gives nothing to the needy shall receive nothing in his own need.
104
A person once brought clothes to a pirate, who had been cast ashore, and almost killed by the severity of the weather; then carried him to his house, and furnished him with all necessaries. Being reproached by some one for doing good to the evil, I have paid this regard, answered he, not to the man, but to humanity.
105
We ought not to choose every pleasure, but that whose end is good.
106
It belongs to a wise man to resist pleasure, and to a fool to be enslaved by it.
107
In all vice, pleasure, being presented like a bait, draws sensual minds to the hook of perdition.
108
Choose rather to punish your appetites than to be punished by them.
109
No one is free who commands not himself.
110
The vine bears three clusters: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of outrage.
111
Do not talk much over wine to show your learning, for your discourse will be unpleasing.
112
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses; and though he be not drunk, he has exceeded moderation.
113
Let discourse of God be renewed every day more surely than our food.
