Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!

She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.