Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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.
Man proposes, God disposes.
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.