Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

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.

Laws are subordinate to custom.

Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. Lat.