Joking apart, now let us be serious.
In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.
Half is done when the beginning is done.