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.

He who dies for virtue does not perish.

Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Laws are subordinate to custom.

To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.

I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]