In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
Luck cannot change birth.
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.