For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
Men must sweat to attain virtue.
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.
But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.