How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.
An evil conscience is often quiet, but never secure.
He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.
Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur
To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.