In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.
Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.
Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.
Get money first; virtue comes after.
You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.
Wine unlocks the breast.