The gods play games with men as balls.
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
Man proposes, God disposes.
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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.