Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.