And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.

Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

Do not mourn the dead with the belly.

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.