It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
Courage in danger is half the battle.
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
Man proposes, God disposes.
I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]
Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.