Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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.
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.