It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

Flame is very near to smoke.

If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

I suspect that hunger was my mother.

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

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.