What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.

Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

There is no excellency without difficulty.