CXXXVII + 

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble. + 

CXXXVIII + 

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress. + 

CXXXIX + 

Let nothing be valued more than truth: not even selection of a friendship which lies without the influence of the affects, by which (affects) justice is both confounded (disturbed) and darkened. + 

CXL + 

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty which fades not away in time nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them. + 

CXLI + 

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill managed. + 

CXLII + 

Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. + 

CXLIII + 

Nothing really pleasant or unpleasant subsists by nature, but all things become so through habit (custom). + 

CXLIV + 

Choose the best life, for custom (habit) will make it pleasant. + 

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. + 

CXLVI + 

A daughter is a possession to her father which is not his own. + 

CXLVII + 

The same person advised to leave modesty to children rather than gold. + 

CXLVIII + 

The reproach of a father is agreeable medicine, for it contains more that is useful than it contains of that which gives pain. + 

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. + 

CL + 

The value of education (knowledge) like that of gold is valued in every place. + 

CLI + 

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God. + 

CLII + 

Nothing among animals is so beautiful as a man adorned by learning (knowledge). + 

CLIII + 

We ought to avoid the friendship of the bad and the enmity of the good. + 

CLIV + 

The necessity of circumstances proves friends and detects enemies. + 

CLV + 

When our friends are present, we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well. + 

CLVI + 

Let no man think that he is loved by any man when he loves no man. + 

CLVII + 

You ought to choose both physician and friend not the most agreeable, but the most useful. + 

CLVIII + 

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened. + 

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. + 

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. + 

CLXI + 

Those who have been instructed, like those who have been trained in the palaestra, though they may have fallen, rise again from their misfortune quickly and skilfully. + 

CLXII + 

We ought to call in reason like a good physician as a help in misfortune. + 

CLXIII + 

A fool having enjoyed good fortune like intoxication to a great amount becomes more foolish. + 

CLXIV + 

Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate. + 

CLXV + 

He who bears in mind what man is will never be troubled at anything which happens. + 

CLXVI + 

For making a good voyage a pilot (master) and wind are necessary: and for happiness reason and art. + 

CLXVII + 

We should enjoy good fortune while we have it, like the fruits of autumn. + 

CLXVIII + 

He is unreasonable who is grieved (troubled) at the things which happen from the necessity of nature. + 