I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.

The gods favor the bold.

It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.