Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire.
To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.
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.