Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.

Many dishes bring many diseases.

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.