It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
No one every suddenly became depraved.
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.