Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?

To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

To make any gain some outlay is necessary.

Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

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

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.