Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

It is difficult to fly without wings.

Flame is very near to smoke.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them; neither are these two things ever equipped enough.

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.