Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
Laugh, if thou art wise.
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.