In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

Conquered, we conquer.

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.

Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!