An undertaking beset with danger.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.
To know all things is not permitted.
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
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.