There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

Fire is next akin to smoke.