How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.

Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Whom the gods love dies young.

Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.