Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
In everything the middle road is best.
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them; neither are these two things ever equipped enough.