If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.
He can do most who has most power.
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.