Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty.
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
There is no excellency without difficulty.
Everything changes, nothing is lost.
There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.