Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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.
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.
He can do most who has most power.