Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

The act is judged of by the event.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.