Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.