Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.
We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?
Too much zeal offends where indirection works.
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.