The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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.