Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
A woman is always buying something.
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.
There is no excellency without difficulty.
Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.