This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
Let deeds match words.
Practice yourself what you preach.
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
It is good to love in a moderate degree; but it is not good to love to distraction.
Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
It is our human lot, it is heaven’s will, that sorrow follow joy.
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.
It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
The gods play games with men as balls.
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
Man proposes, God disposes.