Fragments CXLI-CLX
Fragment CXLI. We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill managed.
Fragment CXLII. Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
Fragment CXLIII. Nothing really pleasant or unpleasant subsists by nature, but all things become so through habit (custom).
Fragment CXLIV. Choose the best life, for custom (habit) will make it pleasant.
Fragment CXLV. Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Fragment CXLVI. A daughter is a possession to her father which is not his own.
Fragment CXLVII. The same person advised to leave modesty to children rather than gold.
Fragment CXLVIII. The reproach of a father is agreeable medicine, for it contains more that is useful than it contains of that which gives pain.
Fragment CXLIX. He who has been lucky in a son in law has found a son: but he who has been unlucky, has lost also a daughter.
Fragment CL. The value of education (knowledge) like that of gold is valued in every place.
Fragment CLI. He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which. is about God.
Fragment CLII. Nothing among animals is so beautiful as a man adorned by learning (knowledge).
Fragment CLIII. We ought to avoid the friendship of the bad and the enmity of the good.
Fragment CLIV. The necessity of circumstances proves friends and detects enemies.
Fragment CLV. When our friends are present, we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.
Fragment CLVI. Let no man think that he is loved by any man when he loves no man.
Fragment CLVII. You ought to choose both physician and friend not the most agreeable, but the most useful.
Fragment CLVIII. If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
Fragment CLIX. Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
Fragment CLX. Whoever are least disturbed in mind by calamities, and in act struggle most against them, these are the best men in states and in private life.