The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.

For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

A woman without paint is like food without salt.

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

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.

It is best to know the worst at once.