Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
It is easy to rule over the good.
He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.