A man with courage has every blessing.
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
It well becomes a young man to be modest.
Modesty should accompany youth.
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.