The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?
Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.
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.