We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.