Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
How dark are all the ways of god to man!
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.
Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.
I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.