You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
He tells old wives' tales much to the point.
A crafty knave needs no broker.
The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.
Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?