A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
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.
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
Not every age is fit for childish sports.
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
Man proposes, God disposes.