Be a gentleman farmer.
For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.
One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.