There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
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.
That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.
You drown him by your talk.
It well becomes a young man to be modest.
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.