If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods.
First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!
The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring.
To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.