An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.
The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.
There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.
Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur
Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent