A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!

Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.