To lay down one's life for the truth.
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.