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.

Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

See the effect of commercial intercourse.

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.