It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.

To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

By the favour of the heavens

Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.