To snatch the worm from the trap.
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.]
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.
We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.
Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.