There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.
Conscience is a God to all mortals.
All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.