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.

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

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

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.

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

It is easier to begin well than to finish well.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.