Feast today makes fast tomorrow
The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.
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.