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.

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.

Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.

Flame is very near to smoke.

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.