It well becomes a young man to be modest.
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.