In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.
Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.