Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.
It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?