Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

Until death it is all life.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.