It would not be better if men got what they wanted.
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.
Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.