A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.
Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.