Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.

But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.