The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
It is better to be envied than pitied.
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.