Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
Better a serpent than a stepmother!
When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.
It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.
I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.
If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.