He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.