No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
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.
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
You will not be a chip the richer.