If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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.