While we wait for life, life passes

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

What once were vices are manners now.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.