It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.