Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

A good resolve will make any port.

It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour.

What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

He who is greedy is always in want.