Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

No man is wise enough by himself.

What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

It is best to know the worst at once.

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.