It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

A wise man was once foolish

The wise can learn from the foolish as the foolish can learn from the wise

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak