The sea is certainly common to all.
Good things soon find a purchaser.
I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
You will not be a chip the richer.