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. If is shameful for a Judge to be judged by others. Slavery, of vice. . . .
None is a slave whose acts are free.
Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight. XII Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful. XIV Chastise thy passions that they avenge not themselves upon thee. No man is free who is not master of himself. A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.