If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life
A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]